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A mindbending razorsharp look at motherhood and mental health that follows a young Indigenous woman who discovers the pictureperfect life she always hoped for may have horrifying consequences

On the surface Alice is exactly where she thinks she should be Shes just given birth to a beautiful baby girl Dawn her charming husband Stevea white academic whose area of study is conveniently her own Mohawk cultureis nothing but supportive and theyve moved into a new home in a posh Toronto neighborhood But Alice could not feel like more of an impostor She isnt connecting with her daughter a struggle made even more difficult by the recent loss of her own mother and every waking moment is spent hiding her despair from Steve and their everwatchful neighbors among whom shes the sole Indigenous resident Even when she does have a minute to herself her perpetual selfdoubt hinders the one vestige of her old life she has left her goal of writing a modern retelling of the Haudenosaunee creation story

Then as if all that wasnt enough strange things start to happen She finds herself losing bits of time and hearing voices she cant explain all while her neighbors passiveaggressive behavior begins to morph into something far more threatening Though Steve assures her this is all in her head Alice cannot fight the feeling that something is very very wrong and that in her creation story lies the key to her and Dawns survival She just has to finish it before its too late

Told in Alices raw and darkly funny voice And Then She Fell is an urgent and unflinching exploration of inherited trauma womanhood denial and false allyship which speeds to an unpredictableand surrealclimax