Flight

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, author of Good Company

'With deft, discerning prose, Strong writes beautifully about mothers and the struggles, fears, and joys of motherhood... A quiet domestic novel that soars' Kirkus Reviews

'A compelling portrait of how love and resentment are often twin sides of the same coin. Flight is its own portrait of struggle and strife, and yet a smooth and utterly compelling read' Vogue

'Strong's writing soars effortlessly... True reconciliation, safety, stability, fulfillment: These are destinations along a flight path forever uncertain - though shot through, like this novel, with moments of transcendence' Los Angeles Times

'Strong is adept as characterizing this loss in all its manifestations, and in rendering the challenges inherent in three families trying to celebrate together... Once again, Strong demonstrates her talents for perception and nuance' Publishers Weekly

'Part of the sense of life in the book comes from Strong's distinctive prose style - compressed, telegraphic and gestural, one in which the sharp noticing of what might otherwise seem like ordinary details about a character or an exchange takes on a resonating depth' New York Times

'Strong is an exacting observer of families and their idiosyncrasies, in the mode of Anne Tyler and Jonathan Franzen... Strong keeps Flight in motion with twists of language and revelation' Washington Post

'Three siblings face their first Christmas without a mother in this moving novel about grief and family. As they attempt to navigate the new dynamic and perform familiar festive rituals, old resentments and tensions between them are revealed and it takes an emergency in the local community to pull them together' Good Housekeeping

'Flight doesn't just juggle the interior lives of six protagonists with great dexterity; it also carefully delineates who these people are to each other, and where anger and jealousy might clip the wings of their better angels... Tightly plotted and vividly rendered' USA Today

'With compassion and a deep sense of understanding, Flight explores the nature of belonging, and what it means to truly be part of a community' Buzzfeed

'Intricate and moving... reminiscent of Anne Tyler, that great chronicler of American families' Irish Times

'Consoling and unsettling... Add enforced cheer, choreographed feasting and stifling expectations - not to mention the swirl of memories that it all triggers - and you've a combustible combination' Observer