Description: "Packs a huge emotional wallop . . . "Flying in Place is an impressive and important debut." --"San Francisco Examiner on "Flying in Place "Unflinching clarity and great dramatic power . . . Susan Palwick is with "Flying in Place a novelist of moment." --"Newsday on "Flying in Place "One of the best and most moving novels by a new author I have read in years." --Alison Lurie on "Flying in Place "Unflinching clarity and great dramatic power...Susan Palwick, a young writer who has hitherto attracted some notice for her stories, poems, and essays, is with "Flying in Place a novelist of moment."--Newsday" on "Flying in Place "I read it in one night and a morning train trip, arriving for work dazed, distracted and drinking in the last few pages. It is a deeply moving book. Palwick's withering understatements of pain are laced with a regret for the lost magic of childhood--even a ruined childhood." --Geoff Ryman" on "Flying in Place ""Flying in Place is a bittersweet novel of a dead sister who returns to give our narrator the tools she need to break her family out of the poisonous pattern that is consuming them all. ... beautifully handled ... a wonderful debut for a writer who has proved she can write well in long forms as well as short ones -- may it be the first of many novels from Palwick, each one better than the ones before."--Orson Scott Card" on "Flying in Place ""Flying in Place is compelling, wrapping deep-empathy insights in lyric poetry to show us the monster behind the mask." --Andrew Vachss" on "Flying in Place

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