{"product_id":"flight-9781398519138","title":"Flight","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Suspenseful, dazzling and moving' \u003c\/b\u003eRumaan Alam\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Arresting and powerful' \u003c\/b\u003eLily King\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Breathtakingly propulsive and insightful' \u003c\/b\u003eLeslie Jamison\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e It’s 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. Without her once ever-present advice and gentle nudges to connect with each other when they need it most, they’ve 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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 fami\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Lynn Steger Strong is a master of family life, a wise chronicler of economic struggles real and imagined, of dreams versus responsibilities, and of nuances in relationships of all kinds. Arresting and powerful, \u003ci\u003eFlight\u003c\/i\u003e examines the possibility and pain of fierce love and hope in our time of looming existential threats’ \u003cb\u003eLily King, author of \u003ci\u003eWriters and Lovers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e ‘A fateful few days in the life of two families becomes in Lynn Steger Strong’s hands a clear-eyed examination of our current moment. \u003ci\u003eFlight \u003c\/i\u003eprobes deeply into grief and its aftershocks, what binds us to one another, the meaning of art itself. It's a book whose fleet movements belie its ambition. Suspenseful, dazzling and moving’ \u003cb\u003eRumaan Alam, author of \u003ci\u003eLeave the World Behind\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e ‘A gorgeous novel, both intimate and expansive. \u003ci\u003eFlight \u003c\/i\u003eis packed full of wisdom about family, marriage, class, climate, love and loss. Lynn Steger Strong is a master of creating characters so funny, flawed and true that they feel like people you know. I couldn’t put it down’ \u003cb\u003eJ. Courtney Sullivan, author of \u003ci\u003eFriends and Strangers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e ‘Breathtakingly propulsive and insightful, \u003ci\u003eFlight \u003c\/i\u003egripped me from the very first page and didn’t let go. It asked my heart to pay better, closer attention to the world, because it pays such exquisite attention to the world: from botched gingerbread houses to cigarette breaks, every scene bristles and pulses with nuance. Strong is a writer who makes me feel reconfigured, more sharply attuned to the business of being alive; as if I have nerve endings that didn’t exist before reading her. \u003ci\u003eFlight\u003c\/i\u003e is a story about how we lose and find each other again – and how this finding is never done, because we are, all of us, many selves at once’ \u003cb\u003eLeslie Jamison, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Recovering\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMake it Scream, Make it Burn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e ‘With razor-sharp pacing and luminous prose, Lynn Steger Strong aims her keen eye on the complexities of siblings, marriage, motherhood and grief. \u003ci\u003eFlight \u003c\/i\u003eis a wonderfully 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’  \u003cb\u003eCynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, author of \u003ci\u003eGood Company\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e ‘With deft, discerning prose, Strong writes beautifully about mothers and the struggles, fears, and joys of motherhood... A quiet domestic novel that soars’\u003cb\u003e \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e ‘A compelling portrait of how love and resentment are often twin sides of the same coin. \u003ci\u003eFlight\u003c\/i\u003e is its own portrait of struggle and strife, and yet a smooth and utterly compelling read’\u003cb\u003e \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e ‘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’ \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e ‘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’ \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e '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' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'Strong is an exacting observer of families and their idiosyncrasies, in the mode of Anne Tyler and Jonathan Franzen... Strong keeps \u003ci\u003eFlight\u003c\/i\u003e in motion with twists of language and revelation' \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e ‘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’\u003cb\u003e \u003ci\u003eGood Housekeeping\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e '\u003ci\u003eFlight\u003c\/i\u003e 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' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'With compassion and a deep sense of understanding, \u003ci\u003eFlight\u003c\/i\u003e explores the nature of belonging, and what it means to truly be part of a community' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBuzzfeed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e ‘Intricate and moving... reminiscent of Anne Tyler, that great chronicler of American families’ \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e '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' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407725568343,"sku":"9781398519138","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781398519138.jpg?v=1730500330","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/flight-9781398519138","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}