Genre Fiction
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Flight: A Novel
"Arresting and powerful, Flight examines the possibility and pain of fierce love and hope in our time of looming existential threats." - Lily King, New York Times bestselling author of Writers & Lovers
"Suspenseful, dazzling and moving." - Rumaan Alam, New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World Behind
It's December twenty-second and siblings Henry, Kate, and Martin have converged with their spouses on Henry's house in upstate New York. This is the first Christmas the siblings are without their mother, the first not at their mother's Florida house. Over the course of the next three days, old resentments and instabilities arise as the siblings, with a gaggle of children afoot, attempt to perform familiar rituals, while also trying to decide what to do with their mother's house, their sole inheritance. As tensions rise, the whole group is forced to come together unexpectedly when a local mother and daughter need help.
With the urgency and artfulness that cemented her previous novel Want as "a defining novel of our age" (Vulture), Strong once again turns her attention to the structural and systemic failings that are haunting Americans, but also to the ways in which family, friends, and strangers can support each other through the gaps. Flight is a novel of family, ambition, precarity, art, and desire, one that forms a powerful next step from a brilliant chronicler of our time.
"Suspenseful, dazzling and moving." - Rumaan Alam, New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World Behind
It's December twenty-second and siblings Henry, Kate, and Martin have converged with their spouses on Henry's house in upstate New York. This is the first Christmas the siblings are without their mother, the first not at their mother's Florida house. Over the course of the next three days, old resentments and instabilities arise as the siblings, with a gaggle of children afoot, attempt to perform familiar rituals, while also trying to decide what to do with their mother's house, their sole inheritance. As tensions rise, the whole group is forced to come together unexpectedly when a local mother and daughter need help.
With the urgency and artfulness that cemented her previous novel Want as "a defining novel of our age" (Vulture), Strong once again turns her attention to the structural and systemic failings that are haunting Americans, but also to the ways in which family, friends, and strangers can support each other through the gaps. Flight is a novel of family, ambition, precarity, art, and desire, one that forms a powerful next step from a brilliant chronicler of our time.
Editorial Reviews
"A fateful few days in the life of two families becomes in Lynn Steger Strong's hands a clear-eyed examination of our current moment. Flight probes deeply into grief and its aftershocks, what binds us to one another, the meaning of art itself. It's a book whose fleet movements belie its ambition. Suspenseful, dazzling and moving." - Rumaan Alam
"Lynn Steger Strong is a master of family life, a wise chronicler of economic struggles real and imagined, of dreams versus responsibilities, and of nuances in relationships of all kinds. Arresting and powerful, Flight examines the possibility and pain of fierce love and hope in our time of looming existential threats." - Lily King
"With razor-sharp pacing and luminous prose, Lynn Steger Strong aims her keen eye on the complexities of siblings, marriage, motherhood and grief. Flight is a wonderfully alive look at the ways we try-defiantly and sometimes perilously-to love one another. You will want to gulp this book down in one sitting, but I urge you to slow down because its charms should be savored." - Cynthia D'Aprix-Sweeney
"Breathtakingly propulsive and insightful, Flight gripped me from the very first page and didn't let go. Strong is a writer who makes me feel reconfigured, more sharply attuned to the business of being alive; as if I have nerve endings that didn't exist before reading her. Flight is a story about how we lose and find each other again-and how this finding is never done, because we are, all of us, many selves at once." - Leslie Jamison
"A gorgeous novel, both intimate and expansive. Flight is packed full of wisdom about family, marriage, class, climate, love and loss. Lynn Steger Strong is a master of creating characters so funny, flawed and true that they feel like people you know. I couldn't put it down." - J. Courtney Sullivan
"In her brilliant new novel, Lynn Steger Strong reaches astonishing new depths of moral complexity in her depiction of family life in the aftermath of loss. Gripping, tender, and very funny, Flight proves once again that she is one of the great chroniclers of our strange and perilous times." - Andrew Martin, author of
"Lynn Steger Strong is a master of family life, a wise chronicler of economic struggles real and imagined, of dreams versus responsibilities, and of nuances in relationships of all kinds. Arresting and powerful, Flight examines the possibility and pain of fierce love and hope in our time of looming existential threats." - Lily King
"With razor-sharp pacing and luminous prose, Lynn Steger Strong aims her keen eye on the complexities of siblings, marriage, motherhood and grief. Flight is a wonderfully alive look at the ways we try-defiantly and sometimes perilously-to love one another. You will want to gulp this book down in one sitting, but I urge you to slow down because its charms should be savored." - Cynthia D'Aprix-Sweeney
"Breathtakingly propulsive and insightful, Flight gripped me from the very first page and didn't let go. Strong is a writer who makes me feel reconfigured, more sharply attuned to the business of being alive; as if I have nerve endings that didn't exist before reading her. Flight is a story about how we lose and find each other again-and how this finding is never done, because we are, all of us, many selves at once." - Leslie Jamison
"A gorgeous novel, both intimate and expansive. Flight is packed full of wisdom about family, marriage, class, climate, love and loss. Lynn Steger Strong is a master of creating characters so funny, flawed and true that they feel like people you know. I couldn't put it down." - J. Courtney Sullivan
"In her brilliant new novel, Lynn Steger Strong reaches astonishing new depths of moral complexity in her depiction of family life in the aftermath of loss. Gripping, tender, and very funny, Flight proves once again that she is one of the great chroniclers of our strange and perilous times." - Andrew Martin, author of
Readers Top Reviews
Linda. Schwenke
It seems the trend in books lately includes many characters, and lots of jumping back and forth in time. I feel bad saying I skimmed many pages, and nothing really held my interest. I was determined to finish it, which I did....but wasn't happy with ending. Can't recommend this book.
A family tale of tales…the exchange of storylines keep a good pace. The characters seem real. They are well developed throughout the book.
Kindle
Interesting, broken yet whole characters. I loved each one. We are all in this book. We are often worried about the wrong things in life. We can all be better to each other. So good. The flight moment at the end, captivating, relevant.
Julie HowlettMarcy G
Did not care for the characters or the story. Not for me.
caufeegal
This was a good story. How people’s lives intertwine in a family. The switching between characters got confusing. And it was difficult to keep track of who was who.
