Product Description
Feels Like Falling is a layered story of a family thrown from their tower of security into the throes of the five stages of grief.

The story, broken up into those five stages, delves deep into the inner workings of life pitted against Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression and then, finally, Acceptance, with lively secondary characters coming along for the ride. Sebastian York, a successful African American plastic surgeon who until now, handled his world the same way a master puppeteer might, finds out that life has changed the roles on him, putting him now at the end of the rope--so to speak. He is diagnosed with progressive cancer with no hope in sight due to the stage and movement of the cancerous cells. Now he must suddenly compile his life's list of things to do and execute the list expeditiously. He starts looking at the basic things that need tending, his wife, his daughter, his career, however, there is one thing in his past that, until now, he hadn't even realized need resolution--Stormy Brown Gunther.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 4 reviews)

More than just a romance

Feels Like Falling shows the depth of Michelle McGriff's writing. She takes the reader on a journey that taps in to various emotions. Readers won't be disappointed.
February 06, 2007

In Search of Peace and Closure

Sebastian and Ta'Rae York, both very successful doctors, are living out their dream. They have a perfect marriage, careers, and the prefect 16 year-old daughter. Sabastian finaly faces his fears by seeing his family pysician - he has cancer and it is spreading quickly. The York family now begins to unravel. Realizing that he only as a short time to live, Sebastian begins to search for answers to questions that he chose to ignore and to also find closure with a woman that he had an affair with while Ta'Rae was pregnant years earlier. Ta'Rae blamed Sebastiand for destroying their perfect lives and realizes that she has to seek help from her ever so noisey sisters.

This was the first book I've read from Ms. McGriff and I enjoyed it very much. Their struggles were real and their questions were real. The book is broken up into sections - denial, anger, acceptance, (I may have them wrong, but this is somewhat the order) I particularly enjoyed the conversations between Ta'Rae and her sisters. There was however one story line that was left open (I assumed to leave room for another story). I look forward to reading more of Ms. McGriff in the future.

Peace and Blessings!!
February 04, 2007

Looking for Peace in All the Wrong Places

Michelle McGriff weaves another tale featuring one of the Ams sisters in Feels Like Falling. Sebastian and Ta'rae York live the good life in Sausalito, California as wealthy physicians with their sixteen year-old daughter in affluent Marin County, outside of San Francisco. Then Sebastian gets the news that he has cancer and it is spreading. At the most he has two years to live. Sebastian is in search of making sense of his life and for some reason he seeks out a woman he had a brief affair with when Ta'rae was pregnant with their daughter, Precious.

Ta'rae feels as if Sebastian has upset their perfect life by becoming ill and while she is a physician herself and knows the perilous ordeals of life and death, she responds in her usual selfish, shallow way. Her sisters, a close-knit bunch headed by the oldest, Rita, view Ta'rae's attitude as typical. Ta'rae has been distancing herself away from them for awhile, encased in a private world she had made for herself, Sebastian and Precious. Her sisters, though they have achieved their own successes are down-to-earth Sistahs who feel it is time for Ta'rae to come off of her high horse and help her man get through this rough period

Meanwhile, Precious has her teenage angst going on, a younger doctor Ta'rae works with, sees his chance to move in and Sebastian discovers his early indiscretion is staring him in the face. The sisters are calling meetings and Sebastian takes off on a journey of discovery and in search of peace that takes him from Northern California to the Central Valley to Mexico.

At times this story was disjointed and jumped into scenes unforeseeable. The premise of one confronting his mortality and seeking to find closure and peace is a good one; however the characters' actions were unpredictable and impulsive at times. The dialogue between the sisters was priceless and realistic; makes one think of when they get together with their siblings. Fans of McGriff will be pleased at yet another novel with an Ams woman at the center of a drama-filled plot.

Dera Williams
APOOO BookClub

February 01, 2007

FANTASTIC

This book holds your interest from the beginning to the end. It is terrific. The characters and their emotions flow from the book. This book truly goes in depth without being depressing and still entertaining about the emotions of a serious disease and its impact on a family. This was my first time reading Michelle McGriff and I am now a fan.
November 08, 2006

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