{"description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "This work of literary fiction explores the dark side of family relationships. Romance noir defiles the pages paralleling the plight of Love Canal. As the nuclear age dawns on Upstate New York, the region careens into a new era with little care for the working poor. \r\n\r\nThe narration hops from family member to family member across time weaving a curse."}, "title": "The Falls", "covers": [8312249], "subject_places": ["New York (State)", "Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.)", "Niagara Falls (N.Y.)", "Love Canal Chemical Waste Landfill (Niagara Falls, N.Y.)"], "subjects": ["Novel", "Fiction", "Suicide victims", "Historical Fiction", "Waterfalls", "Family relationships", "Widows", "Women", "Domestic Violence", "Murder", "brownfields", "science", "Radioactive waste disposal", "Environmental aspects", "Families", "Fiction, psychological", "Widows, fiction", "New york (state), fiction", "Domestic fiction"], "subject_people": ["Ralph Nader", "Ariah Burnaby Fictitious Character", "Dirk Burnaby Fictitious Character", "Royall Burnaby Fictitious Character"], "key": "/works/OL14958465W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL32981A"}}], "subject_times": ["1950-1978"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "latest_revision": 20, "revision": 20, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2010-03-15T21:17:44.840375"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-05-06T21:49:25.895087"}}