The Fall

The Fall is a mercurial and enriching walk through ‘off-script’ fatherhood, cerebral palsy, art history and this commonplace mystery, love. The Fall is wise and kind and moving * David Mitchell *The Fall is a moving portrait of a relationship with a child and a place. It is a rare book: by turns heartbreaking, angry and lyrical * Edmund de Waal *A wise and unsentimental description of what it is like to be parent to a child with cerebral palsy—an episodic portrait of a very intimate paternal journey – Andrew Solomon, National Book Award–winning author of Far From the TreeA poignant, beautiful book, angry and inquiring, lyrical and literate – Iain Finlayson * Saga *A remarkable celebration…intensely moving, rational, literate, and an absolute joy to read from start to finish – John Berendt, New York Times best–selling author of In the Garden of Good and Evil and The City of Fallen AngelsFathering a disabled child, like the plaza outside the Campo Santi Giovanni e Paolo to which Diogo Mainardi consistently returns, is uneven terrain. In The Fall, Mainardi traverses that terrain in 434 lucid, deeply arresting steps – Ron Suskind, Pultizer Prize–winning journalist and author of Life, Animated: A Story of Sidekicks, Heroes and AutismClever without showing off. Moving without being sentimental * Me and my Big Mouth *

Diogo Mainardi is a Brazilian writer, journalist and TV commentator, known for his articles in Brazil’s largest weekly magazine, Veja.

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