title: The Art of Falling
author:  Kathryn Craft 
description: When Penelope Sparrow wakes up in the hospital, shes told she fell 14 stories and is lucky to be alive. But with bruises and pain and a broken bone, Penny faces the possibility of life without dance. All Penny ever wanted was to be a dancer, but her five-foot, eight-inch stature and wide hips (despite a lifetime of eating just enough to stay on the right side of anorexia) meant rejection from the traditional five-foot, five-inch and 95-poundworshipping dance world. Penny slowly pieces together the fragments of what happened that night on the balconyand how it relates to her former, and complex, relationship with famed dancer Dmitri. Deepening relationships with Angela, a cystic fibrosissufferer; Marty, a baker; Bebe, her former mentor; and others carry Penny along as she comes to reevaluate what it means to live, love, and accept less than perfection. Craft, a former dancer and choreographer, captures the entanglement of pain and despair and beauty and hope that often knits our lives and, through the character of Penny, illustrates how self-acceptance is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself. --Ann Kelley
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  _The Art of Falling_ is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and
  incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used
  fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or
  dead, is entirely coincidental.
  
  
  Copyright © 2021 by Danielle McLaughlin
  
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  
  Published in the United States by Random House, an imprint and division of
  Penguin Random House LLC, New York.
  
  
  RANDOM HOUSE and the HOUSE colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin
  Random House LLC.
  
  
  LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
  
  
  Names: McLaughlin, Danielle, author.
  
  
  Title: The Art of Falling : a novel / Danielle McLaughlin.
  
  
  Description: First Edition. | New York : Random House, [2021]
  
  
  Identifiers: LCCN 2019039687 (print) | LCCN 2019039688