When the World Tips Over
Published on 24. September 2024
Book
Hardback
528 pages
978-0-525-42909-8 (ISBN)
Description
* An Instant New York Times Bestseller *
"Jandy Nelson is a true virtuoso . . . I am fervently in love with this brave, funny, tender, exuberant beating heart of a book." -Becky Albertalli, author of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda and Imogen, Obviously
The explosive new novel that brims with love, secrets, and enchantment by Jandy Nelson, Printz Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of I'll Give You the Sun
The Fall siblings live in hot Northern California wine country, where the sun pours out of the sky, and the devil winds blow so hard they whip the sense right out of your head.
Years ago, the Fall kids' father mysteriously disappeared, cracking the family into pieces. Now Dizzy Fall, age twelve, bakes cakes, sees spirits, and wishes she were a heroine of a romance novel. Miles Fall, seventeen, brainiac, athlete, and dog-whisperer, is a raving beauty, but also lost, and desperate to meet the kind of guy he dreams of. And Wynton Fall, nineteen, who raises the temperature of a room just by entering it, is a virtuoso violinist set on a crash course for fame . . . or self-destruction.
Then an enigmatic rainbow-haired girl shows up, tipping the Falls' world over. She might be an angel. Or a saint. Or an ordinary girl. Somehow, she is vital to each of them. But before anyone can figure out who she is, catastrophe strikes, leaving the Falls more broken than ever. And more desperate to be whole.
With road trips, rivalries, family curses, love stories within love stories within love stories, and sorrows and joys passed from generation to generation, this is the intricate, luminous tale of a family's complicated past and present. And only in telling their stories can they hope to rewrite their futures.
"Splendid and complex . . . Satisfying and soul-thrilling." -SLJ (starred review)
"Transcendently beautiful." -Nina LaCour, author of We Are Okay
"Jandy Nelson is a rare, explosive talent." -Tahereh Mafi, author of the Shatter Me series
"A gloriously intricate and expansive YA/adult crossover . . . Stunningly generous." -Just Imagine
"Sublime, intricate, and dazzling." -Helena Fox, author of How It Feels to Float
"A complex, seductive YA heartbreaker." -The Guardian
"Intoxicating. [Destined to] firmly lodge itself within many, many hearts." -The Irish Times
"Jandy Nelson is a true virtuoso . . . I am fervently in love with this brave, funny, tender, exuberant beating heart of a book." -Becky Albertalli, author of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda and Imogen, Obviously
The explosive new novel that brims with love, secrets, and enchantment by Jandy Nelson, Printz Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of I'll Give You the Sun
The Fall siblings live in hot Northern California wine country, where the sun pours out of the sky, and the devil winds blow so hard they whip the sense right out of your head.
Years ago, the Fall kids' father mysteriously disappeared, cracking the family into pieces. Now Dizzy Fall, age twelve, bakes cakes, sees spirits, and wishes she were a heroine of a romance novel. Miles Fall, seventeen, brainiac, athlete, and dog-whisperer, is a raving beauty, but also lost, and desperate to meet the kind of guy he dreams of. And Wynton Fall, nineteen, who raises the temperature of a room just by entering it, is a virtuoso violinist set on a crash course for fame . . . or self-destruction.
Then an enigmatic rainbow-haired girl shows up, tipping the Falls' world over. She might be an angel. Or a saint. Or an ordinary girl. Somehow, she is vital to each of them. But before anyone can figure out who she is, catastrophe strikes, leaving the Falls more broken than ever. And more desperate to be whole.
With road trips, rivalries, family curses, love stories within love stories within love stories, and sorrows and joys passed from generation to generation, this is the intricate, luminous tale of a family's complicated past and present. And only in telling their stories can they hope to rewrite their futures.
"Splendid and complex . . . Satisfying and soul-thrilling." -SLJ (starred review)
"Transcendently beautiful." -Nina LaCour, author of We Are Okay
"Jandy Nelson is a rare, explosive talent." -Tahereh Mafi, author of the Shatter Me series
"A gloriously intricate and expansive YA/adult crossover . . . Stunningly generous." -Just Imagine
"Sublime, intricate, and dazzling." -Helena Fox, author of How It Feels to Float
"A complex, seductive YA heartbreaker." -The Guardian
"Intoxicating. [Destined to] firmly lodge itself within many, many hearts." -The Irish Times
Reviews / Votes
* Instant New York Times Bestseller ** #1 Indie Bestseller *
* USA Today Bestseller *
* Chicago Public Library Best Books of the Year *
* Common Sense Media Best Books of the Year *
* Kirkus Best Books of the Year *
* Irish Times Best Books of the Year *
* The Children's Book Review Best Teen Books of the Year *
* ALA Rainbow List Selection *
Amazon Best Book of the Last 25 Years
* 5 State Award Lists *
? "In this multigenerational epic sprinkled with magic, Nelson (I'll Give You the Sun) tackles grief, love, and the ways in which history commingles with the present. . . . Intricately rendered [and told] via myriad alternating perspectives . . . Nelson takes readers on a whirlwind journey toward a profound and satisfying destination." -Publishers Weekly (starred review)
? Nelson expertly weaves [all the threads] to create a splendid and complex tale. Her writing is magnetic. [Readers] will fall in love with her characters [and] be rewarded with a satisfying and soul-thrilling ending. This long-awaited follow-up to I'll Give You the Sun is well worth the wait. -School Library Journal (starred review)
? "A multilayered [and] sumptuous example of fabulism, [When the World Tips Over] is steeped in the mysteries and missteps of the human condition . . . Luscious, start to finish." -Shelf Awareness (starred review)
"When the World Tips Over is transcendently beautiful. It bursts with life and spills over with heartache and love." -Nina LaCour, Printz Award-winning author of We Are Okay and Yerba Buena
"Sublime, intricate, and dazzling, When the World Tips Over kept opening and opening before me like a glorious map of treasures. I loved all of its delightful, flawed, sensitive characters, and the magic inside each of them. Jandy Nelson has created an epic and intimate tale. I adored it." -Helena Fox, award-winning author of How It Feels to Float and The Quiet and the Loud
"Jandy Nelson is a rare, explosive talent. Her prose is vivid, breathtaking, and drenched in passion, and her stories remind me why words can change the world." -Tahereh Mafi, New York Times bestselling author of the Shatter Me series
"Jandy Nelson is a true virtuoso, and When The World Tips Over left me speechless. I am fervently in love with this brave, funny, tender, exuberant beating heart of a book." -Becky Albertalli, New York Times bestselling author of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda and co-author with Adam Silvera of What If It's Us
"A delirious, intoxicating spell of a book destined to end up on many important award lists and to firmly lodge itself within many, many hearts." -The Irish Times
"100% Nelson's signature fabulism and evocative, lyrical prose . . . Readers will be satisfied by the emotional collision of the various plotlines and the richly drawn main and secondary characters. . . . A technicolor fever dream offering readers a sensory feast." -Kirkus
"[A] complex family saga about self-understanding, relationships, secrets, and passed-down family trauma. . . . Traversing a wide range of topics and emotions through multiple perspectives and formats, World contemplates each with due attention and nuance, [achieving] a quilt-like story both in its warmth and in its patches coming together to make a beautiful narrative." -Booklist
"Jandy Nelson weaves an unforgettable tapestry of love, loss and magic realism. [Her] lyrical writing has a folksy, dreamy quality in this rewarding and complex multigenerational epic." -The Observer
"A gloriously intricate and expansive YA/adult crossover . . . Nelson's style is playful [yet her] writing reverberates with the pain of loss and longing . . . Almost nobody [in the novel] is who they initially seem, and often seemingly random moments turn out to have a far deeper significance. [Readers] will find that [the book] more than repays the effort they put in, and it may offer an excellent gateway to the work of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Isabel Allende, Laura Esquivel and many others." -Just Imagine
"Featuring intricately interwoven love stories, curses, rivalries and misunderstandings, Nelson's first book for ten years is a complex, seductive YA heartbreaker with a touch of magical realism." -The Guardian
"Lyrical prose, an epic plot . . . [Readers will] feel the pull of Nelson's carefully woven storytelling and succumb to her special kind of magic." -The Horn Book
"Absorbing [and] moving. [The] structure keeps the pages turning and builds suspense, [offering] a lot of food for thought about family, love, hate, sorrow, joy, and more. [This] sweeping generational family epic is magical and moving." -Common Sense Media (a Common Sense Selection)
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Penguin Putnam Inc
Target group
Young adult
US School Grade: Ninth Grade and over, Interest Age: From 14 years
Dimensions
Height: 211 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 45 mm
Weight
612 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-525-42909-8 (9780525429098)
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Jandy Nelson is the New York Times bestselling author of I'll Give You the Sun, which received the Printz Award, was a Stonewall Honor Book, and was named one of TIME's 100 Best Young Adult Books of All Time. Her critically acclaimed debut, The Sky Is Everywhere, is now an AppleTV+ and A24 original film starring Jason Segel and Cherry Jones, for which Jandy wrote the screenplay. Together, Sun and Sky have sold well over a million copies worldwide and have been translated into more than thirty-eight languages. Both have been YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults picks and on multiple best of the year lists, have earned many starred reviews, and continue to enjoy great international success. Currently a full-time writer, Jandy lives and writes in San Francisco, California, not far from the settings of her novels.