Hanna Who Fell from the Sky, Christopher Meades
Hanna Who Fell from the Sky, Christopher Meades
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Hanna Who Fell from the Sky

Author: Christopher Meades

Narrator: Caitlin Kelly

Unabridged: 11 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/26/2017


Synopsis

From highly acclaimed, award-winning author Christopher Meades comes a magical, provocative tale of forbidden love and one girl's struggle for liberation 

Hanna has never been outside her secluded community of Clearhaven. She has never questioned why her father has four wives or why she has fourteen brothers and sisters. And in only one week, on her eighteenth birthday, Hanna will follow tradition and become the fifth wife of a man more than twice her age. 

But just days before the wedding, Hanna meets Daniel, an enigmatic stranger who challenges her to question her fate and to follow her own will. Then her mother tells her a secret—one that could grant Hanna the freedom she's known only in her dreams. As her world unravels around her, Hanna must decide whether she was really meant for something greater than the claustrophobic world of Clearhaven. But can she abandon her beloved younger sister and the only home she's ever known? Or is there another option—one too fantastical to believe? 

With lush, evocative prose, Christopher Meades takes readers on an emotional journey into a fascinating, unknown world—and, along the way, brilliantly illuminates complexities of faith, identity and how our origins shape who we are.

About Christopher Meades

Christopher Meades is the author of three previous novels, including THE LAST HICCUP, which won the 2013 Canadian Authors Association Award for Fiction. In addition, Meades’s work has appeared in several literary journals including The Potomac Review and The Fiddlehead. He lives in British Columbia, Canada, with his family.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Angela M on August 22, 2017

A polygamous community, a cult, somewhere bordering the woods, in a secluded place called Clearhaven is where we meet 17 year old Hanna. She is about to be married off to a man who is three times her age, a man who already has several wives. An eerie read in many respects, a quick read and one that......more

Goodreads review by Berit☀️✨ on December 20, 2018

This was an enthralling story that was both beautiful and disturbing... I had no idea what to expect when I picked up this book, I was going to only read a few pages and before I knew it I was over halfway done and I could not put it down.... I was both captivated and repelled Buy the isolated town......more

Goodreads review by Suzanne on October 18, 2017

Hanna is turning eighteen in a week and has never left the town of Clearhaven. Her hometown is a polygamist community where residents blindly follow a cult-like individual named “Brother Paul”. Her father has four wives and has sired fourteen children. When her birthday arrives she is destined to be......more

Goodreads review by DJ on October 15, 2017

Favorite Quotes: Paul the Third, was chubby and balding, like an off-kilter teapot always in danger of tipping over. Paul the Third wore a mustache that Charliss described as “four parts pubic hair and three parts bacon grease” and he perspired constantly. Hanna had felt like a rubber band stretched t......more

Goodreads review by Christopher on July 24, 2017

My new book arrives in September 2017 from Park Row Books.... Here are a few blurbs to appear on the back cover: "A strange and beautiful fable with shades of Deliverance, Room, and Winter’s Bone." —Laline Paull, award-winning author of The Bees "Beautiful and delicate, Meades has written a powerful m......more