The Fall Of Gravity. An alcoholic father, Raoul Daggle, and his eleven-year-old daughter, Juliette, search for Joyel Daggle, Raoul’s wife and Juliette’s mother. She has suddenly deserted them because of a threat from a mysterious man in a three-piece brown suit. The novel cuts between Raoul and Juliette’s journey to find Joyel and Joyel’s continuing flight to escape her pursuer. Woven amidst this narrative, Rooke intersperses the book with reflective prose, almost jazz in nature. These passages distill certain incidents and cause the reader to question assumptions about narrative and character. All three characters encounter the New Indian, who through his extraordinary sideshow, Crazy Horse, provides a healing and redemptive experience for the protagonists.