![]() ![]() Lynn Steger Strong: I don’t know if this is relevant to you, but I talked to Yiyun Li a couple of weeks ago about her novels, which I admire so deeply. What’s the promise of family, even when we get this really raw and honest look at the ways family keeps failing each other? I talked to Strong over zoom about the value of community and family, the precarity of the current historical moment, and the need for novels that destabilize easy categorization.īekah Waalkes: Flight is the chaotic family holiday novel that we needed, which is also to say, the family in Flight is so unsentimental and so realistic: they have grudges that go back for years, they have triggers and sidelong glances and all kinds of immediate, emotional responses to each other. Strong doesn’t shy away from exposing her characters’ flaws: their snap judgements, their old grudges, their impatience and exasperation and anxiety. ![]() Flight asks us what we owe to each other, but it does so without looking for a sentimental answer. Over the three days that this novel follows, these three families collide with another family, a local mother and daughter who need their help. They must decide what to do with the house they’ve been left, but at the same time, they must negotiate the stress of the holidays in the house they’re in. ![]() It’s their first holiday season without their mother, Helen, and her Florida house. Flight follows three adult siblings and their families as they convene for Christmas in upstate New York. ![]()
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