The Fall

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

Clever without showing off. Moving without being sentimental

Me and my Big Mouth

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

A poignant, beautiful book, angry and inquiring, lyrical and literate

Iain Finlayson, Saga

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 Tree

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 Angels

Fathering 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 Autism