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.
