WHEN THE WORLD TIPS OVER BY JANDY NELSON
Paperback published by Walker Books 24th September 2024
ISBN 9781406363098
Welcome to Northern California wine country, home to the Fall siblings. Years ago, their father mysteriously disappeared, cracking the family to pieces. When an enigmatic, rainbow-haired girl shows up, it sends the lives of brothers Wynton and Miles and their sister Dizzy into tumult. With rivalries, family curses and love stories within love stories, 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.
MY REVIEW
I haven’t read any books by Jandy Nelson, but when I started to read The World Tips Over, I realised just what a marvellous author Jandy is. Although this a longer book with 529 pages I enjoyed reading all about Dizzy as she was my favourite character. Dizzy is a young girl who has gone through difficult times in her life. She has two brothers Wynton and her perfect brother Miles. Dizzy’s father left her mother, and disappeared, then at the age old twelve Dizzy, split up with her boyfriend, Lizard, who now goes by his real name Tristan after he got a new hair cut and a new girlfriend. To matters more complicated in Northern California where Dizzy’s family live a rainbow-haired girl comes into their lives. This is a splendid story with many mixed emotions, with each character having their own unique story to tell.
Jandy Nelson’s critically-acclaimed, New York Times bestselling second novel, I’ll Give You the Sun, received the 2015 Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature, Bank Street’s Josette Frank Award, and a Stonewall Honor Book Award. Both Sun and her debut, The Sky Is Everywhere, have been YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults picks and on multiple best of the year lists including the New York Times, Time Magazine, NPR, have earned many starred reviews, and continue to enjoy great international success, collectively published in over 47 countries. Recently, Jandy wrote the screenplay for The Sky Is Everywhere for Warner Brothers. A literary agent for many years, Jandy received a BA from Cornell University and MFAs in Poetry and Children’s Writing from Brown University and Vermont College of Fine Arts. Currently a full-time writer, she lives and writes in San Francisco, California–not far from the settings of her novels. https://www.Twitter.com/jandynelson https://jandynelson. https://www.instagram.com/jandy.nelson
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