Summary Of Falling Into Place By Amy Zhang

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The novel, Falling into Place, written by Amy Zhang is a teen fiction story that informs the audience about the effects of suicide through a heart-breaking narrative. Amy was able to captivate the reader with an engaging storyline, the strategic character development and the mind opening themes included.
Amy Zhang’s novel, Falling into Place, is a nonlinear but easy to follow story. The sequence of events may not particularly be chronological, but more so a depiction or flashbacks of what the main character, Liz Emerson’s, life was like before she passed. The novel consists of numerous ‘snapshots’, conveying the memories of Liz’s childhood and early teenage years. This gives the non-chronological sequence of events an exception because it is

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