Flight

'Arresting and powerful,Flightexamines 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 BehindIts December twenty-secondand siblings Henry, Kate, and Martin have converged with their spouses on Henrys house in upstate New York. This is the first Christmas the siblings are without their mother, the first not at their mothers 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, whilealso trying to decide what to do with their mothers house, their sole inheritance. As tensions rise, the whole group is forced to come together unexpectedlywhen a local mother and daughter need help.With the urgency and artfulness that cemented her previous novelWantas 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.Flightis a novel of family, ambition, precarity, art, and desire, one that forms a powerful next step from a brilliant chronicler of our time.