A quiet domestic novel that soars." - Kirkus Reviews As the novel comes to a close, Strong offers moments of connection among the family members that feel genuine and earned. "With deft, discerning prose, Strong writes beautifully about mothers and the struggles, fears, and joys of motherhood. … Once again, Strong demonstrates her talents for perception and nuance." - Publishers Weekly "Strong is adept characterizing.loss in all its manifestations, and in rendering the challenges inherent in three families trying to celebrate together. 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. As tensions rise, the whole group is forced to come together unexpectedly when a local mother and daughter need help.
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. This is the first Christmas the siblings are without their mother, the first not at their mother's Florida house. It's December twenty-second and siblings Henry, Kate, and Martin have converged with their spouses on Henry's house in upstate New York. 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.
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