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Catch Us When We Fall

A Novel

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If you love the emotionally complex novels of JoJo Moyes and the dramatic books of Jodi Picoult, you won't want to miss this newest book about second chances, redemption, and the power of hope from USA Today bestselling author of Shelter Me, Juliette Fay.

On her own since the age of eighteen, Cass Macklin dated brilliant, troubled Ben McGreavy, convinced he was the smartest person she'd ever known. They partied their way through their twenties, slowly descending into a bleak world of binge-drinking and broken promises, inebriated for most of a decade. Now Ben is dead, and Cass is broke, homeless, scared...and pregnant.

Determined to have a healthy pregnancy and raise Ben's baby, Cass has to find a way to stop drinking and build a stable life for herself and her child. But with no money, skills, or sober friends or family, the task seems insurmountable. At wit's end, Cass turns to the only person with the means to help her: Ben's brother Scott, third basemen for the Boston Red Sox, a man with a temper and problems of his own.

The two make a deal that neither one of them is sure they can live up to. As Cass struggles to take control of her life and to ask for help when she needs it, Scott begins to realize there's a life for him beyond the baseball diamond.

By turns heartbreaking and humorous, with its message that change is possible, that forgiveness can be freely given, and that life, though imperfect, is worth embracing, Catch Us When We Fall is a story of human connectedness and hope.

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    • Booklist

      August 1, 2021
      Cass Macklin is grieving the death of Ben, her boyfriend of nearly ten years, while newly pregnant, homeless, and scared. Cass spent most of the previous decade drunk, and is now faced with the challenge of creating a healthy life for herself and her baby. After suffering a setback in her sobriety, she tracks down Ben's brother Scott, a professional baseball player, to ask for help. Skeptical of her commitment to cleaning up, and sharing the same early-life suffering that drove Ben to drink, Scott also has a lot to learn about life. Cass goes through rehab and moves into Scott's spare room on the condition that she stay sober. Scott plays ball through the season, coming home to Cass between road trips as she attends Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and pursues her education. Their tentative agreement grows into a mutually supportive friendship that carries them through the birth of the baby and into the future. Readers who enjoy an emotional journey including hope and redemption will be well satisfied with this story. Offer it to fans of Jacquelyn Mitchard and Jodi Picoult.

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      Starred review from August 27, 2021

      Fay's sixth novel (after City of Flickering Light) examines addiction and its effects, but it's also a story of redemption and love. When she turns 18, foster child Cassie starts dating Ben, the older brother of her friend Scott. Ben, though he's brilliant, is fatally flawed, being an alcohol-addicted thrill seeker. He and Cassie party away a decade, until suddenly he's dead from alcohol poisoning. Then Cassie discovers she's pregnant, which is the shock she needs to go sober. But without money or sober friends, she's not sure how to do it. She asks Scott, who now plays for the Boston Red Sox, to help; he agrees on the promise that there will be no drama. But of course there is drama, although Cassie manages to remain sober thanks to AA (which plays a big role in the book) and the friends she makes there. VERDICT A well-paced story of addiction and redemption, told with sparks of humor and full of warmly drawn characters, this will appeal to fans of the issue-based fiction of Jodi Picoult or the emotional tug of Jojo Moyes. Readers who enjoy stories of hardship with happy endings will want to read this book.--Melanie Kindrachuk, Stratford P.L., Ont.

      Copyright 2021 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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