Jeff Talbot was an artist. And a husband and a father. He thought he had everything he wanted?and he did. Until the day his second child, a daughter, Christy, was born. His wife, Emily, went into a coma that day and never recovered. He had to raise his son and new daughter alone. He moved to a farm, away from the crowds and tried his best. But his relationship with his oldest child, Ben, grew strained. The day that Christy fell down the stairs to her death was the day that something in Jeff Talbot died, too, on the inside. And it's going to take a long time and a lot of searching before he finds what's missing. Filled with magic realism, After The Fall is the story of a man haunted by the death of his daughter, a man whose pain and suffering lead him to the brink of insanity. And it might take a crazy bird to lead him back...