Flight A Novel
Flight, a novel by Lynn Steger Strong, is published by Mariner Books in 2022 and spans 232 pages. This narrative unfolds during a pivotal Christmas gathering in upstate New York, where siblings Henry, Kate, and Martin, along with their spouses, confront the absence of their mother for the first time. As they navigate familial rituals and the complexities of their inheritance, old tensions surface, revealing the intricacies of their relationships against a backdrop of personal and societal challenges.
Readers will find a story that delves into themes of family life, ambition, and the connections that bind us, even amidst uncertainty. The novel explores how the siblings, along with their children, come together to face not only their own struggles but also the unexpected needs of a local mother and daughter. Through this lens, Flight examines the dynamics of love and support in a world marked by existential threats, making it a poignant exploration of contemporary American life.
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“Arresting and powerful, Flight examines the possibility and pain of fierce love and hope in our time of looming existential threats.” — Lily King, New York Times bestselling author of Writers & Lovers
“Suspenseful, dazzling and moving.” — Rumaan Alam, New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World Behind
It’s December twenty-second and siblings Henry, Kate, and Martin have converged with their spouses on Henry’s house in upstate New York. This is the first Christmas the siblings are without their mother, the first not at their mother’s 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, while also trying to decide what to do with their mother’s house, their sole inheritance. As tensions rise, the whole group is forced to come together unexpectedly when a local mother and daughter need help.
With the urgency and artfulness that cemented her previous novel Want as “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. Flight is 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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