The Fall-Down Effect by Liz Johnston

The Fall-Down Effect by Liz Johnston

“She’d learned the concept of the fall-down effect in school, how timber production declined as old growth was depleted—logged. Whatever grew back would not equal what had been lost” (198).  This metaphor for broken family ties is at the heart of Liz Johnston’s new novel, The Fall Down Effect, but rather than a hard comparison, it is intended as more of a question. Once a family experiences a wholly destabilizing trauma, and is fractured—how doe…