The Girl Who Fell From the Sky

by Heidi W. Durrow

The Girl Who Fell From the Sky: eNotes Essentials

Summary

Heidi Durrow’s novel, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky, is told from multiple perspectives, moving between the present and different moments in the past. It is the heartbreaking story of a young girl who survived a fall from the nineth floor of an apartment building.

Part One

It is 1982 and eleven-year-old Jamie lives with his drug addicted mother in a Chicago apartment. Jamie loves watching birds. When he believes he has seen a very large bird fly past his window, he runs outside to find it. But what he finds is not a...

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