When the World Tips Over

An explosive new novel brimming with love, secrets, and enchantment by Jandy Nelson, Printz Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of I'll Give You the Sun

The Fall siblings live in hot Northern California wine country, where the sun pours out of the sky, and the devil winds blow so hard they whip the sense right out of your head.

Years ago, the Fall kids' father mysteriously disappeared, cracking the family into pieces. Now Dizzy Fall, age twelve, bakes cakes, sees spirits, and wishes she were a heroine of a romance novel. Miles Fall, seventeen, brainiac, athlete, and dog-whisperer, is a raving beauty, but also lost, and desperate to meet the kind of guy he dreams of. And Wynton Fall, nineteen, who raises the temperature of a room just by entering it, is a virtuoso violinist set on a crash course for fame . . . or self-destruction.

Then an enigmatic rainbow-haired girl shows up, tipping the Falls' world over. She might be an angel. Or a saint. Or an ordinary girl. Somehow, she is vital to each of them. But before anyone can figure out who she is, catastrophe strikes, leaving the Falls more broken than ever. And more desperate to be whole.

With road trips, rivalries, family curses, love stories within love stories within love stories, and sorrows and joys passed from generation to generation, this is the intricate, luminous tale of a family's complicated past and present. And only in telling their stories can they hope to rewrite their futures.

"I am fervently in love with this brave, funny, tender, exuberant beating heart of a book." --Becky Albertalli, author of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
"Transcendently beautiful." --Nina LaCour, author of We Are Okay
"Sublime, intricate, and dazzling . . . I adored it." --Helena Fox, author of How It Feels to Float
"Jandy Nelson is a rare, explosive talent." --Tahereh Mafi, author of the Shatter Me series
"Intricately rendered . . . Profound and satisfying." --PW (starred review)
"A technicolor fever dream offering readers a sensory feast." --Kirkus
"Splendid and complex . . . Satisfying and soul-thrilling . . . Well worth the wait." --SLJ (starred review)
"Beautiful." --Booklist

Publisher: Dial Books
Published: 09/24/2024
Pages: 528
Weight: 1.34lbs
Size: 8.59h x 5.88w x 1.68d
ISBN: 9780525429098
Age: Young Adult


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 06/24/2024
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2024
School Library Journal 08/01/2024 pg. 100
Booklist 08/01/2024 pg. 59

About the Author
Jandy Nelson is the New York Times bestselling author of I'll Give You the Sun, which received the Printz Award, was a Stonewall Honor Book, and was named one of TIME's 100 Best Young Adult Books of All Time. Her critically acclaimed debut, The Sky Is Everywhere, is now an AppleTV+ and A24 original film starring Jason Segel and Cherry Jones, for which Jandy wrote the screenplay. Together, Sun and Sky have sold well over a million copies worldwide and have been translated into more than thirty-eight languages. Both have been YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults picks and on multiple best of the year lists, have earned many starred reviews, and continue to enjoy great international success. Currently a full-time writer, Jandy lives and writes in San Francisco, California, not far from the settings of her novels.