Flight -- Lynn Steger Strong, Hardcover

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.

Author: Lynn Steger Strong
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 11/08/2022
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780063135147

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 07/01/2022 pg. 3
Publishers Weekly 08/08/2022
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2022
Booklist 10/01/2022 pg. 23