While Alice works hard to maintain the split between the two halves of her life, Phoebe appears in the fissure. She has stories she wants to tell, part of her desire to become human, and needs Alice to write them down. Alice herself is an inveterate storyteller. And the tales are wonderful: about Jo-Jo, the drag queen with a thousand faces; Blanche, the Southern millworker who is attracted and terrified by interracial love; and Carla, the artist who creates universes in small boxes.
Alice and Phoebe are on opposite sides of a revolving circle, yin and yang slowly turning as Phoebe descends to earth and Alice flies high enough to hear the music of the spheres. As their stories increasingly intertwine, one takes up where the other leaves off.
With Falling to Earth, Elizabeth Brownrigg's first novel.
