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    After the Falls: A Memoir

    By Catherine Gildiner

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    In 1960, Cathy McClure, age 12, is thrown out of Catholic school. Her father’s drugstore, faced with a superhighway and encroaching chain stores, has fallen upon hard times. So the family decides to leave Lewiston, New York, for a fresh start in suburban Buffalo. But even as Cathy embraces the tumultuous sixties and throws herself into a new life as cheerleader, Hojo Hostess, and civil rights advocate, trouble — as usual — isn’t far behind. Fiesty and resolute as ever, Cathy soldiers on, but the one thing she can’t fight threatens to dissolve the family that, through her many ups and downs, has always been her solid ground.

    Told with the same wit, charm, and candour that made Too Close to the Falls a modern classic, After the Falls is an evocative portrait of a young woman, and a country, finding its way.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherECW Press
    Release dateSep 1, 2014
    ISBN9781770906365
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    After the Falls: A Memoir
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    Catherine Gildiner

    CATHERINE GILDINER was a clinical psychologist in private practice for twenty-five years. Her best-selling memoir Too Close to The Falls was published to international acclaim. She lives in Toronto.

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    • 1/5
      I can't believe this book was written by the same author who wrote, "Too Close To The Falls" - I LOVED that book. I HATED this one. The writing was awful, the story - disjointed and self-indulgent. Not funny, not poignant, not even a titch interesting.
    • 1/5
      Gildiner writes a completely readable account of her early life. I very much enjoyed "Too Close to the Falls"; and "After the Falls", while darker, was still captivating. Like reading Forest Gump, she seemed to be everywhere anything was happening in the 60s. I don't think, had we been classmates, we would have gotten along, but I really enjoyed looking over her shoulder at her madcap life in the 60s.
    • 4/5
      I picked up After The Falls on a whim when I ran across it while at a thrift shop. I'm so glad I did! I loved this book so much that I searched out Ms. Gildiner's first memoir, Too Close to the Falls, and will start reading it immediately. After The Falls was set in the same time period as my own teenage years. So much of it was about things that I knew about, but not from a personal experience, just from a distance. Ms. Gildiner's teen years were full of all sorts of life experiences. I look forward to reading about her earlier years.
    • 5/5
      I loved Catherine Gildiners first portion of her memoir Too Close to the Falls. I was hoping that the 2nd book would be equally as good. This book was a home run. I LOVED it more then the first. This girl has lived one full life and knows how to spin a tale. A really fun read if your grew up in the Buffalo area. To all my friends in book club who read the first book - do pick this up - I read it in two sittings.
    • 5/5
      What a wonderful book! This are the memoirs of Cathy Gildiner, the author, who went on to practice clinical psychology. However, this is the story of growing up from her pre pubscent years until her early 20's. This all takes place during the late 1950's and 1960. Her parents are loving but somewhat eccentric, as is Cathy Gildiner . The story is by turns laugt out loud funny and full of poignant touching moments. We are privy to all of Cathy's foibles, misadventures, and interesting thinking, and experiences.This book grabs you in from the first page on, and never lets go. I cannot emphasize enough what wonderful story this is - except to say that I am now reading the first book in her memoirs - Too Close to the Falls.I learned so much about growing up in the 50's and 60's and also loved the fun, empathic , headstrong narrator, Cathy Gildiner. This is a book i think virtually all of my friends will love to read!
    • 5/5
      Well, After the Falls was just as addicting as the first. For many reasons (Cathy being one of them) she and her family have left Lewison and relocated to Buffalo, NY. The suburb they settle in is completely different than the small town atmosphere of their former home. The house is smaller, her mother no longer has her social clubs and church and her research seems to no longer interest her. Her father is no longer a front line pharmacist and seems to miss the respect that went with his former position in Lewiston. Everything has changed....Cathy analyzes the lay of the land and plots her plan to fit in - becoming a cheerleader, buying the right clothes, borrowing the family car late at night etc. But 'fitting in' is not in her nature. Although her parents have moved to the Amherst subdivision so that she can be enrolled in a well thought of academic high school, academics aren't a priority."My father never said a word about my dismal school record in terms of scholastics or behaviour. He never mentioned the call from the guidance counsellor, Mr. Myshenko, who'd said I was a 'born leader who had gone astray.' I only found out about it when he threatened to call Dad again. When I asked Mr. Myshenko why he had called my father instead of my mother, he said that whenever they called my home and asked the woman who answered if she was the mother of Cathy McClure, she said no."Cathy is still questioning why things are and what she can do to change them. Having worked so closely with Roy, the black delivery driver for most of her childhood, Cathy is stunned when racism openly appears in her new surroundings. One response? The Black Lawn Jockey Elimination squadron is born. The drive for social justice continues when Cathy attends Ohio University. It is the 60's and the civil rights movement is in full swing. Cathy falls in love with a young black poet and together they become deeply involved in the fight for equality. She also discovers the joy in learning, finally embracing academics.After the Falls focuses on much of the turbulent 1960's - civil rights, war, sex, drugs and politics, But, Cathy's relationship with her father plays an integral part of her life during this period. Since the move from Lewiston, their interactions have been adversarial. When her father falls ill, she is forced to re evaluate their relationship.After the Falls is darker than Too Close to the Falls, dealing with heavier issues. Some of them are disturbing, but all are thought provoking, handled with humour, candor and openness. Gildiner paints a picture of a turbulent time in history as well as allowing us to share in her coming of age during this time. Her writing style is effortless, almost reading as fiction. Highly, highly recommended. I can't wait to read the third memoir.
    • 4/5
      I didn’t grow up in the 60s. Truthfully, I wasn’t even born then. But Catherine Gildiner’s book, After the Falls, is so fun, so interesting that I now have a better understanding of an important American decade that I completely missed.The summary of the memoir will tell you about Catherine’s exploits, her part in the civil rights movement, her run in with the FBI. I loved that stuff, but it wasn’t what made her book so interesting. What ulitmately made After the Falls so great was Catherine’s voice and the voice of her parents. I loved their relationship, and I loved how she showed teenage angst that was relatable, true, and touching. Catherine’s parents were beautiful people-giving their daughter all the space she needed while providing a safe home in the midst of a country in turmoil.After the Falls was not what I expected. It was better, and Catherine Gildiner is a writer that made working at a donut shop more exciting than a fast action car chase. Grab a copy of After the Falls if you want to learn or revisit the 60s. You won’t regret it.
    • 4/5
      Very good. As another reviewer stated,this is not as quirky as "Too close to the Falls",true.... but it is a very good read and a nice continuation of her memoirs! You should read "Too close to the falls" first or you will be lost in this book! This book continues on into her high school and college years,her growth and self realizations.It is still funny in parts and serious in parts,but a deeper level of emotion.Her story matures as she does.
      Highly recommended (after reading the first book).Well written!
    • 4/5
      Even if it were not a memoir it would be a great read. She writes with humour, even in her very difficult situations. Her parents, unconventional,loving, and before their times gives her freedom and unflinching support.
    • 1/5
      I can't believe this book was written by the same author who wrote, "Too Close To The Falls" - I LOVED that book. I HATED this one. The writing was awful, the story - disjointed and self-indulgent. Not funny, not poignant, not even a titch interesting.