~ Trade Paperback
Welcome 1950s Lewiston, New York, a sleepy town near Niagara Falls, and into the childhood of Catherine McClure Gildiner . . .
A memoir of stunning beauty and remarkable grace, improbable friendships and brushes with death, Too Close to the Falls is an exquisite, haunting return, through time and memory.
“Catherine Gildiner's ... tale of life as an eccentric, middle-class Catholic school girl in 1950s Lewiston, N.Y., is a revealing and vivid portrait of small-town America around the 1950s … The author's maturity, her ability to forgive rather than blame, informs this book and is the ultimate gift to the reader.” -- Globe and Mail