Flight

The siblings gather at their mother's house for Christmas, trying to reconcile their needs and impulses while dealing with the strain of her absence. When a local child goes missing, they are forced to come together and face the consequences of their actions. The novel explores themes of race, class, privilege, family, friendship, and love.

Format: Hardback
Length: 240 pages
Publication date: 10 November 2022
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd

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Breathtakingly propulsive and insightful:


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Its 22 December, and siblings Henry, Kate, and Martin have converged with their spouses on Henry's house in upstate New York.


This is their first Christmas since their mother passed, and without her ever-present advice and gentle nudges to connect with each other when they need it most, they have grown distant. 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 sole inheritance, their mother's house.


As each tries and fails and tries again to figure out how to reconcile their various needs and impulses around the house, they must also see whether they can and will remain a family without their matriarch. They are all feeling the strain, but when a local child goes missing, they are forced to come together, and all of them will cross a line.


Praise for Lynn Steger Strong:


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A defining novel of our age of left-behind families... as if Anne Helen Peterson's viral burnout article and John Steinbeck's oeuvre had a baby:


Vulture praised "The World and All That It Holds" as "a defining novel of our age of left-behind families." The novel explores the experiences of a family who moves from a small town to the city, and the challenges they face in adjusting to their new environment.


Through Elizabeth's experiences and in her propulsive voice, the novel explores race, class, privilege, coincidence, and the ways in which these forces shape our lives.


Time magazine praised "The World and All That It Holds" as "a novel that explores the price women pay for craving what's just out of reach." The book follows the experiences of a young woman who moves to New York City to pursue her dreams, but finds herself struggling to make ends meet.


Through Elizabeth's experiences and in her propulsive voice, the novel explores race, class, privilege, coincidence, and the ways in which these forces shape our lives.


Vulture praised "The World and All That It Holds" as "a novel that explores the price women pay for craving what's just out of reach." The book follows the experiences of a young woman who moves to New York City to pursue her dreams, but finds herself struggling to make ends meet.


Time magazine praised "The World and All That It Holds" as "a novel that explores the price women pay for craving what's just out of reach." The book follows the experiences of a young woman who moves to New York City to pursue her dreams, but finds herself struggling to make ends meet.

Weight: 330g
Dimension: 144 x 222 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781398519138