About the book, Where We Fall 
Publisher: Lake Union Publishing (April 19, 2016)
On the surface, Abby Holden has it all. She is the mother of a beautiful daughter and the wife of Ryan, a beloved high school football coach. Yet, depression has a vice grip on Abby and every day tugs a little harder on the loose threads of her marriage, threatening to unravel her charmed life. Meanwhile, Ryan is a charismatic, loyal husband who can coach the local high school football team to victory, but is powerless to lift his wife’s depression, which has settled into their marriage like a deep fog. Although this isn’t the life he’s dreamed of, Ryan is determined to heal the rifts in his family. Lauren Sheppard was once Ryan’s girlfriend and Abby’s closest friend. Now a globe-trotting photographer who documents the power and beauty of waterfalls around the world, she returns back home to the mountains of North Carolina, where she must face the scene of a devastating heartbreak that forever changed the course of her life.
As college coeds, Abby, Ryan, and Lauren had an unbreakable bond. Now, for the first time in seventeen years, the once-inseparable friends find themselves confronting their past loves, hurts, and the rapid rush of a current that still pulls them together. With hypnotic, swift storytelling, Weinstein weaves in and out of Abby, Ryan, and Lauren’s lives and imparts lessons of love, loyalty, friendship, and living with mental illness.
Ripe with emotional insight, WHERE WE FALL explores the depths of the human mind and a heart that sees what the eyes cannot. As Abby, Ryan, and Lauren struggle to repair their relationships and resolve their inner demons, they unflinchingly hold the mirror to the reader, reminding us not only of our own flaws, but also how beautiful and human those imperfections can be.
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About the author, Rochelle B. Weinstein 
Born and raised in Miami, Florida, Rochelle B. Weinstein followed her love of the written word across the country. She moved north to attend the University of Maryland, earning a degree in journalism, and began her career in Los Angeles at the LA Weekly. After moving back to Miami, she enjoyed a stint in the entertainment industry, marrying her love of music with all things creative. When her twins arrived, she sat down one afternoon while they were napping and began to write. The resulting novel, the highly acclaimed What We Leave Behind, explores the poignancy of love and the human condition. Her second book, The Mourning After, is a moving story of hope and resiliency.
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My Thoughts 
This book is a contemporary, literary look at what it’s like to live with a mental health condition (in this case, clinical depression) both as the person who has the condition, and the people who surround her, but while the subject is a difficult one, the book is a gripping read, the kind of novel you sit down with, only to look up several hours later to realize that you’ve finished it, and it’s suddenly dark outside (or light outside, if you’re nocturnal, like me.)
Author Rochelle B. Weinstein has created three main characters (four, if you include Abby and Ryan’s daughter Juliana) and a cast of supporting characters who all feel as vibrant and real – and flawed – as anyone you may know in life. At the center of it is Abby, of course, whose outwardly perfect life is the mask she wears to hide her depression. Her flaws are not limited to her condition – but they are the most obvious. Ryan is her husband, the former boyfriend of her best college friend, and while he’s far from perfect himself (except in memory and imagination) he’s lovingly imperfect in a way that makes you root for him. We don’t really meet Lauren until about a quarter of the way into the story, but when we do, she is as real and dynamic as the other two.
It’s easy to say that a love triangle is a trope, but Weinstein doesn’t just flip the trope, she dissects it. She makes us see all the different things that influence the way we live and love, grow and change, over the course of a year, a relationship, a lifetime. When she puts it back together, there are extra pieces, but that’s okay, because they fill the center, and make everything dimensional and real.
It would be easy to say “read this book if you or someone you know is clinically depressed,” but that would be shortchanging both Weinstein and her work, because most of the themes in this novel are universal. I say: read this book if you love a compelling, deeply human story.
Goes well with hot coffee and multigrain toast with almond butter.
Giveaway 
One person in the U.S. or Canada will win a copy of this book. How do you do it? Leave a comment on this blog telling me about someone you loved who got away (make sure you use a valid email address – no one but me will see it) , OR follow me on twitter (I’m @Melysse), and retweet my post about this book.
If you win, I’ll forward your information to the publicist, and they will ensure that you receive your copy. (It can take up to a month from the end of the whole tour.)
This giveaway opportunity is open until Monday, May 16th, at 12:00 pm Central time.
Rochelle B. Weinstein’s TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS: 
Monday, April 18th: Just Commonly
Thursday, April 21st: Patricia’s Wisdom
Monday, April 25th: 5 Minutes for Books
Tuesday, April 26th: Dreams, Etc.
Wednesday, April 27th: Alexa Loves Books
Thursday, April 28th: Kritter’s Ramblings
Thursday, April 28th: Worth Getting In Bed For
Friday, April 29th: Books a la Mode – author guest post
Monday, May 2nd: A Chick Who Reads
Tuesday, May 3rd: Bibliotica
Wednesday, May 4th: Bookmark Lit
Thursday, May 5th: A Bookish Way of Life
Friday, May 6th: BookNAround
Monday, May 9th: Good Girl Gone Redneck
Wednesday, May 11th: I’d Rather Be Reading at the Beach
Thursday, May 12th: Satisfaction for Insatiable Readers
Friday, May 13th: Not in Jersey
Friday, May 13th: Bewitched Bookworms
Many years ago I met this very special young man who was thoughtful, kind and meant a great deal to me. The timing was not great and we were young and needed more opportunity to explore the relationship. I regret being foolish and letting him go.
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Your description of what the author does with the love triangle is fascinating – I wish more authors would dig as deep!
Thanks for being a part of the tour.