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Original Title:	The Time It Takes to Fall: A Novel
ISBN:	0743297229 (ISBN13: 9780743297226)
Edition Language:	English URL http://www.margaretlazarusdean.com

The Time It Takes to Fall

Margaret Lazarus Dean

Hardcover | Pages: 320 pages

Rating: 3.82 | 345 Users | 71 Reviews

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Title	:	The Time It Takes to Fall
Author	:	Margaret Lazarus Dean
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 320 pages
Published	:	February 6th 2007 by Simon & Schuster (first published 2007)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Young Adult. Coming Of Age

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It is the early 1980s, and America is in love with space. Growing up in the shadow of Cape Canaveral, young Dolores Gray has it particularly bad: she dreams of becoming an astronaut.At school, Dolores finds herself caught between her desire for popularity and her secret friendship with the smartest and most unpopular boy in her class, whose father is NASA's Director of Launch Safety. At home, discord begins to grow between her parents when her father's job as a NASA technician is threatened.

Looking for escape, Dolores loses herself in her scrapbook, where she files away newspaper articles about the astronauts and the shuttles, weather reports on launch scrubs, and stories about her idol, Judith Resnik.

Then, on the morning of January 28, 1986, seventy-three seconds after liftoff, the space shuttle "Challenger" explodes, killing all seven astronauts on board -- including Judith Resnik. It is a moment that shakes America to its core, and nowhere is it more deeply felt than in central Florida. Dolores becomes determined to reconstruct what went wrong, both in her parent's marriage and at NASA, in the hope that she can save her father's job and keep her family together.

"The Time It Takes to Fall" is a coming-of-age novel that deftly weaves the story of one family's drama into the larger picture of a touchstone event in American history. It is at once an intimate look at a young girl's loss of innocence and a portrait of America's loss of innocence -- the end of an era that romanticized manned space flight and would never be the same again.

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I really enjoyed this novel. Once I was into the story, I found myself staying up late to read just one more chapter (or two or three). Nothing extraordinarily exciting happens in these pages, but I was pulled in as if a great reveal awaited me in the next chapter. Craft-wise, The Time It Takes to Fall is more of a four-star novel, but I think the fact it kept me so captivated should count for something.The Time It Takes to Fall is the story of a girl, Dolores, who yearns to be an astronaut. Her

What a terrific book. Dolores is one of the most realistic teens in recent fiction, and her relationship with couldbe best friend Eric, which is affected by Dolores' need to be accepted by the snobbish kids at school, rings terribly true. Her complex relationship with her mother is also very nicely handled. The backdrop of Florida before and after the space shuttle disaster is fascinating and feels painstakingly researched. Dean manages to give the reader lots of background on the space shuttle

When I finally got into this book, I consumed it heartily and yet, there was reason for the great hesitation. First, Myla Goldberg is a hard act to follow and as I had just finished "Bee Season," Margaret Lazarus Dean had some big shoes to hop into. The other objection to immersing myself in Dean's novel is the unmet expectations of the book's purpose. I had seen Dean read some months back and was moved by her premise that her generation (which happens to be my generation) is heavily influenced

This story had some relevance to me coincidentally as we used to live in Florida and had visited the Cape Canaveral space station, which is well worth a visit. This is a coming-of-age story set against events with the space shuttles and a mother who is going through some difficult times. She takes off and has an affair and leaves her dear daughter to do a lot of growing up on her own.

I both hated and mildly liked this book. I both recommend and don't recommend others read this. In other words: approach at your own risk.The parts about the space shuttle program were interesting and the parts about Challenger in specific were fascinating to me. I grew up knowing the shuttle exploded (I was maybe 3 when it happened) and never really knew the whys and hows of it. I looked up some of the details after finishing and it was mostly all correct in the book, with maybe some dramatic

Interesting topic, but there is not one likable or unselfish character. I hated the mother and found her incredibly selfish. Dolores was awful as well. I didn't see any growth in the characters. They were just awful all the way through.

Upon further reflection, I'm changing my rating from four stars to five.I think in many ways coming-of-age stories retell the loss-of-innocence story most familiar to me in the story of the Garden of Eden. "The Fall" is hauntingly repeated with several characters, including NASA and the shuttle Challenger. It is the painful crash at the end of the fall where lessons are learned, and that may be Dean's point all along.Dean's ability to inhabit the mind of a 13-year-old girl, and narrate both