{"id":7755,"date":"2009-12-02T15:45:36","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T20:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=7755"},"modified":"2009-12-02T14:22:30","modified_gmt":"2009-12-02T19:22:30","slug":"head-over-heels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/02\/head-over-heels\/","title":{"rendered":"Head over heels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/books\/review-the-day-the-falls-stood-still-by-cathy-marie-buchanan\/article1382573\/\">Globe and Mail<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What a wordsmith! What a work of depth and breadth! What a world newcomer Cathy Marie Buchanan brings to propulsively glittering and gorgeous life in The Day the Falls Stood Still.<\/p>\n<p>Few first novels exhibit the mastery, maturity and majesty of Buchanan&#8217;s riveting fictional debut, a heart-wrenching, soul-racking, spell-binding tale interwoven with guts, anguish and glory guaranteed to remain in readers&#8217; minds long after they&#8217;ve crossed its devastating finish line.<\/p>\n<p>Commencing in 1915, in this gripping storyteller&#8217;s hometown of Niagara Falls, against the backdrop of the full-force arrival of hydroelectricity and the First World War, this almost entirely first-person narrative relates the saga of 17-year-old Bess Heath, the youngest daughter of a once well-heeled family down on its luck.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Globe and Mail: What a wordsmith! What a work of depth and breadth! What a world newcomer Cathy Marie Buchanan brings to propulsively glittering and gorgeous life in The Day the Falls Stood Still. Few first novels exhibit the mastery, maturity and majesty of Buchanan&#8217;s riveting fictional debut, a heart-wrenching, soul-racking, spell-binding tale&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[31,2],"tags":[2569,2567,510,2568],"class_list":["post-7755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-books","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-book","tag-cathy-marie-buchanan","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-the-day-the-falls-stood-still"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7756,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7755\/revisions\/7756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}