Both Uses of
precarious
in
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
- NORAH STOOD, BAREFOOT AND PRECARIOUSLY BALANCED, on a stool in the dining room, fastening pink streamers to the brass chandelier.†
p. 73.0 *precariously = in an unsafe or unsure manner
- This is what he knew that Paul didn't: the world was precarious and sometimes cruel.†
p. 199.5precarious = unsafe or unsure
Definition:
unsafe or in danger of getting worse -- especially in danger of falling