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Flight - Strong Lynn Steger - Paperback

Flight – Strong Lynn Steger – Paperback

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Flight
Contributor(s):Strong, Lynn Steger(Author)

Binding:PaperbackPub Date:October 31, 2023

A stunning novel about family, ambition, grief, and the American safety net from the critically acclaimed author ofWant,told through the shifting voices of a family gathering for Christmas in upstate New York after the death of their beloved matriarch, at odds over the settling of her estate.

Tightly plotted and vividly rendered. USA Today

Its December twenty-secondand siblings Henry, Kate, and Martin have converged with their spouses on Henrys house in upstate New York. This is the first Christmas the siblings are without their mother, the first not at their mothers 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, whilealso trying to decide what to do with their mothers house, their sole inheritance. As tensions rise, the whole group is forced to come together unexpectedlywhen a local mother and daughter need help.

With the urgency and artfulness that cemented her previous novelWantas 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.Flightis 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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