01939cam a2200265 i 4500 371379299 TxAuBib 20190304120000.0 180910s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780316475358 0316475351 (OCoLC)1055268345 TxAuBib rda Wilkins, Joe. Fall Back down When I Die. : Joe Wilkins / 2019. Little Brown & Company, 2018. 240 p. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Wendell Newman, a young ranch hand in Montana, has recently lost his mother, leaving him an orphan, as his father met a violent end more than a decade earlier. His bank account holds less than a hundred dollars, and he owes back taxes on what remains of the land his parents owned, as well as money for the surgeries that failed to save his mother's life. Into this situation comes seven-year-old Rowdy Burns, the illegitimate son of Wendell's cousin, who is incarcerated after falling prey to addiction. Traumatized, Rowdy is mute and damaged. Caring for him will be a test of Wendell's will and resolve, and yet he comes to love the boy more than he ever thought possible. That love will be stretched to the breaking point during the first legal wolf hunt in Montana in more than thirty years, when a murder results in a manhunt, and Wendell finds himself on the wrong side of a disaffected fringe group, hoping both to protect Rowdy and to avoid the same violent fate that claimed his father. This dark and haunting debut novel is an unforgettable tale of sacrificial love, with two characters who win the reader's heart from the first page to the last. 20190304. Rural families Fiction. Fiction Family Life.