Flight: 'A master of family life' - Lily King

"Flight" is a novel by Lynn Steger Strong that explores the meaning of family and home, and the gift of being together. It follows the siblings Henry, Kate, and Martin as they gather for Christmas at their mother's house, dealing with their differences and tensions. When a local family calls for help, they are forced to unite and confront their past resentments. The novel received praise for its compassionate and wise portrayal of family dynamics, and its exploration of themes such as race, class, privilege, and forgiveness.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 240 pages
Publication date: 09 November 2023
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd

It's December 22, and Henry, Kate, and Martin are gathered at Henry and Alice's house in upstate New York. It's the 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, the siblings have grown distant. Their differences are all too apparent, from the lives they have forged for themselves to what they each want to do with their sole inheritance: their mother's house. As they try and fail and try again to create new picture-perfect memories, tensions and old resentments rise, but they are forced to unite when a local family calls for help.

Compassionate and wise, Flight explores the meaning of family and home, and the gift of being together.

Praise for Lynn Steger:

"Strong is a fierce, aching, and razor-sharp novel about having the ground fall away beneath your feet." - Emma Cline

"A deeply intelligent and sneakily moving novel about having the ground fall away beneath your feet. Strong ingeniously undercuts conventional wisdom about what it means to be a success in this world." - Jenny Offill

"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

"Elizabeth's anxious, raw voice ties these threads together, coalescing into a story about the price women pay for craving what's just out of reach." - Time magazine

"Through Elizabeth's experiences and in her propulsive voice, the novel explores race, class, privilege, coincidence, family, friendship, and love." - Guardian

"A smart, sharp novel." - Elle

"Strong strips away at the imbalance of advantages that ul.

Weight: 172g
Dimension: 130 x 198 x 18 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781398519152