Flight

A Novel

By: Lynn Steger Strong

Narrated by: Andi Arndt

""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.

Way too many characters

I love the author and enjoyed this book, which gets better if you can slog through the confusing first half. There are way too many characters introduced up front and this made for a very challenging audiobook listening experience. Worthwhile if you can get through the frustrating structure.

Road trip book

Enjoyed the book. It got easier to follow the individuals characters as the story progressed.

Slow start but really pulls you in!

A great holiday read! Narrator was hard to follow for the first. Pulled of chapters; a voice change for each character would be an improvement. Overall, I enjoyed listening.

Beautiful

I really enjoyed Flight! I love the way each character’s personality was described in such a way you can relate with each and decipher character from character. Well done, beautifully written and so intuitive. Looking forward to Lynn’s future work.

Loved it!

A wonderful and thoughtful family drama full of humanity and hope. I was sorry for it to end!