"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.
