Synopsis
Evie's Fall provides a vivid perspective of an elderly woman’s sudden trauma and hospitalization after shattering her pelvis in an unfortunate fall. The story is presented in a narrative, first-person account by the often sedated patient.
The main character is Evie, a widow and daughter of privilege in her 80's, who relives the touch points of her life under the influence of narcotics that sometimes arouse wild hallucinations and sporadic outcries in reaction to the fragmentary flashbacks she experiences. A mysterious nurse teaches Evie how to 'travel,' a form of astral projection, as a method for revisiting the past in lucid detail.
Through examining her life, Evie comes to realize that she was stunted by societal expectations at every personal level: she was not allowed to get a traditional college degree because she was a woman, she was denied a relationship with the one man she wanted because they were not of the same race, she married a man whom she did not love and lost her first child to disease. Many of her most important experiences happened in secret because she was never allowed to share her truth.
The more she comes to terms with the limitations imposed on her own life, the more her most humanitarian sentiments on wealth, childhood, race, sexuality, education, marriage, family, friendships, community, and death flower.
Evie's Fall is about taking that last chance to change your life, to shake off the artificially-imposed customs, formalities, expectations, fears, and inherited legacies to become the self you were meant to be.