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A daughter?s unforgettable memoir of her wild and haunted father, a man whose war never really ended
Henry Holt
February 2006
256 pages
ISBN: 0805077324
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
From her father, Danielle Trussoni learned rock and roll,
how to avoid the cops, and never to shy away from a fight. Growing up, she was fascinated by stories of his adventures
as a tunnel rat in Vietnam, where he risked his life
crawling headfirst into holes to search for American POWs
held underground. Ultimately, Danielle came to believe that
when the man she adored drank too much, beat up strangers,
or mistreated her mother, it was because the horror of those
tunnels still lived inside him. Eventually her mom gave up
and left, taking all the kids except one: Danielle. When
everyone else walked away and washed their hands of Dan
Trussoni, Danielle would not. Now she tells their story. As Danielle trails her father through nights at Roscoe’s
Vogue Bar, scores of wild girlfriends, and years of bad
dreams, a vivid and poignant portrait of a father-daughter
relationship unlike any other emerges. Although the
Trussonis are fiercely committed to each other, theirs is a
love story filled with anger, stubbornness, outrageous
behavior, and battle scars that never completely heal. Beautifully told in a voice that is defiant, funny, and yet
sometimes heartbreaking, Falling Through the Earth
immediately joins the ranks of those classic memoirs whose
characters imprint themselves indelibly into readers’ lives.
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