
Girl Who Fell from the Sky
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Narrado por:
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Karen Murray
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Emily Bauer
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Kathleen McInerney
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Heidi Durrow
A timely and moving bicultural coming-of-age tale, based on a true story and told by an author who has struggled with the same issues as her protagonist.
The daughter of a Danish immigrant and a black G.I., Rachel survives a family tragedy only to face new challenges. Sent to live with her strict African-American grandmother in a racially divided Northwest city, she must suppress her grief and reinvent herself in a mostly black community. A beauty with light brown skin and blue eyes, she attracts much attention in her new home. The world wants to see her as either black or white, but that's not how she sees herself.
Meanwhile, a mystery unfolds, revealing the terrible truth about Rachel's last morning on a Chicago rooftop. Interwoven with her voice are those of Jamie, a neighborhood boy who witnessed the events, and Laronne, a friend of Rachel's mother.
Inspired by a true story of a mother's twisted love, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky reveals an unfathomable past and explores issues of identity at a time when many people are asking, "Must race confine us and define us?"
©2009 Original material © 2009 Heidi W. Durrow. Recorded by arrangement with Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. (P)2009 (P) 2009 HighBridge Company.Listeners also enjoyed...




















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On a windy morning in Chicago, 11-year-old Rachel falls from the rooftop of a six-story building to her certain death. Her mother and two siblings also fall, but Rachel is the sole survivor. Witnessing the tragedy is her neighbor Jamie, a boy who’s trying to make sense of his own disheveled childhood.
Rachel, the biracial daughter of now-deceased Nella, a Danish immigrant, and Roger, a black man in the U.S. armed forces, is sent to live with her grandmother in Portland, where she struggles with her identity coming of age in an all-black community.
Meanwhile, the mystery unfolds of what really happened on that rooftop in Chicago — was it an accident? Suicide? Murder? Only Rachel knows for sure, but Jamie and Laronne, a friend of Nella’s, are left in Chicago to try and uncover the events leading up to that horrible day.
Told from the different perspectives of Rachel (performed by Emily Bauer), Laronne and Jamie (performed by Karen Murray), and Nella (performed by Kathleen McInerney), this story’s layers are even richer thanks to the variety of voices. Bauer, however, does a great disservice to Rachel’s character. In trying to emulate how a child would sound, her enactment is breathy and weepy. The nasal, whimpering quality to her voice can be grating, when she could have let the well-written words speak for themselves through subtlety. When Bauer switches to the voices of characters speaking to Rachel, she transforms easily and it’s a relief. But Murray shines as Laronne and Jamie. She also embodies enough of the characters to let the depth and pain of the story come through, but doesn’t overwhelm the piece with her acting.
If you’re able to get past Bauer’s interpretation and listen to the heart of this novel, it’s an important and eye-opening commentary on race, love, and growing up in world where you don’t quite fit in. —Colleen Oakley
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Would you try another book from Heidi Durrow and/or the narrators?
YesHow would you have changed the story to make it more enjoyable?
The ending seemed a bit disappointing. I would have liked to know more about what happened after they got a bit older.What three words best describe the narrators’s voice?
decent , plain, acceptableWas Girl Who Fell from the Sky worth the listening time?
YesAny additional comments?
Enjoyed the sequence of events and the mysterious factor.Book Club Choice and A Nice Surprise
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Amazing Listen!
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Meh
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Beautiful on so many levels
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With this approach, I found a realistic perspective of the ways in which my diverse group of students may experience the world and the stereotypes into which they are often placed by society. This was also an opportunity for me to examine my own unconscious perceptions of stereotypes. It is uncommon for a book to afford such an opportunity to its readers.
I would recommend this book to all educators, especially those who work with a diverse population of students. While I do agree with the other review in terms of the lack of development of the plot, I feel that this is midigated by the chance to view the world through someone else's experiences.
Prompts You to Examine Cultural Stereotypes
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Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?
Not my style of writting. Took a long time to get interesting. This was a book club selection and most of the members said that they did not finish the book because it was boaring. Did not grab your interest in first half of book so folks just could not muster the energy to complete it.Has Girl Who Fell from the Sky turned you off from other books in this genre?
Not entirely, just need to work at building a compelling story that readers will find new and diffrent.What three words best describe the narrators’s voice?
Can't remember. The whole experience was not memoriable.Could you see Girl Who Fell from the Sky being made into a movie or a TV series? Who should the stars be?
Possibly, they can do a lot with acting and special effects these days.Too slow
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Beautifully Written
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