A Review of Heidi Durrow's "The Girl Who Fell from the Sky"
In February, I read a really good book, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky , by Heidi W. Durrow , winner of the 2008 Bellwether Fiction Prize. I didn't know this author but I noticed the novel because of Barbara Kingsolver's blurb on the front cover, and the other blurbs on the back which compare it to books by Toni Morrison and Jamaica Kincaid, works that feature grandmothers, mothers and daughters. Although belated, this review is relevant now for four reasons: 1. It's a good mother's day read. 2. The 2010 Bellwether Fiction manuscript has just been announced (on May 3), and this one, as I pointed earlier, is particularly important because it went to my friend Naomi Benaron, whose novel is set in Rwanda. 3. Durow's book continues to receive great reviews and seems to be doing very well. 4. I really enjoyed the novel, and continue to read it to enjoy the beauty of its language. The Girl Who Fell from the Sky is about a girl who actually fell from the roof of a tall Ch...