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The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky
Ken Dornstein
Random House
March 2006
320 pages
ISBN: 0375503595
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Biography
In this stunning, emotionally charged memoir, Ken Dornstein
interweaves the moving story of his own coming-of-age with
the promise of greatness his brother never lived to fulfill. The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky is a heartbreaking
but profoundly hopeful book about finding beauty in the
midst of tragedy and making sense of it. David Dornstein was twenty-five years old, a handsome,
charismatic young man on the verge of becoming an
extraordinary writer, when he boarded Pan Am Flight 103 from
London on the evening of December 21, 1988. Thirty-eight
minutes after takeoff, he died, along with the 258 other
passengers and crew, when a terrorist's plastic explosive
ripped the plane apart over Lockerbie, Scotland. David's brother, Ken, was nineteen, a college sophomore home
on winter break, when the call came. All his life Ken had
looked up to David, confided in him, followed where he led.
David's death left Ken with a void that both crushed and
consumed him. What were his brother's plans when he died?
Was David really carrying home a draft of the great novel
everyone knew was in him? Was he in love with the woman he
was living with overseas? Ken Dornstein needed to learn the
truth about his brother's life and death. In this harrowing
and affecting memoir, he records what he found out. It was years before Ken could bring himself to confront the
stacks of notebooks and letters David left behind, but once
he began to read he was drawn deep into his brother's world.
From David's early obsession with writing down his every
thought to his misadventures on the streets of New York,
from an unraveling love affair in Israel to a devastating
childhood secret, piece by piece Ken assembles a complex,
disturbing portrait of an artist struggling to find a voice
for passions that often threatened to tear him apart. Then,
by chance, Ken runs into David's college girlfriend on a
train and everything changes once again. He starts to
question his motives and his memories, and finally sets off
on a complicated journey to finish the book that his brother
started. As haunting as a dream, as electrifying as the day's news,
The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky is an incandescent and
unforgettable account of one man's struggle to find
inspiration in his brother's life and create a life of his
own. What begins as a tragedy turns into a love story of
deeply affirming power.
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