"After the Falls", however, is the story of an older, more mature young girl who is on the process of becoming a young woman in the midst of the political changes of the 1960s. The first parts of "After the Falls" felt a bit awkward, as if Gildiner was trying a bit too hard to find incidents in her life to write about that might compare with her first book. Catherine isn't happy with her new life and, truth be told, neither are her parents. Her parents end up trading their large Victorian home and her father's pharmacy for a small ticky-tacky house and a research job for a pharmaceutical company. "After the Falls" picks up shortly after "Close to the Falls" leaves off, with Catherine now 13 years old and her family is moving from Niagra Falls to Buffalo, NY. Her bossy, tomboyish, rebellious ways contrasted with her Catholic school upbringing (until she was eventually expelled from school after an incident involving substituting alcohol for holy water).
Gildiner started working full-time in her father's pharmacy at 4 years old, giving her a very different view of the world. Catherine Gildiner's first book, "Close to the Falls", was a collection of audacious and funny stories of her childhood in and around the Niagra Falls area of New York state during the 1950s.
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