Description: "Packs a huge emotional wallop... Flying in Place is a brave and honest work, an impressive and important debut." -- San Francisco Examiner on Flying in Place "Chilling and finely tuned...Palwick avoids pat solutions, offering instead a deeply felt, deeply moving tale." -- Publishers Weekly on Flying in Place "Rewarding...Palwick''s characterization of Emma is superb, as truthful as that of Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird. Emma''s compelling voice carries this book into the world of first-class storytelling." -- Seattle Times on Flying in Place "A powerful and harrowing story about child abuse...Dramatizes its horrific theme with unflinching clarity and great dramatic power." -- New York Newsday on Flying in Place "Simple, strong, and very powerful...a true page-turner...A book so achingly true you want to thank the author. A book like this, a story that can captivate us and raise our awareness, tells truths that need to be told." -- Raleigh News & Observer on Flying in Place "Beyond its advantages as story and as storytelling, Flying in Place offers a very real portrayal of a very real vulnerability: not only the acute vulnerability of the betrayed, but also the residual fear that our society forces upon all girls and women. The portrayal is a subtle one, and all the more effective for that." -- Voice of Youth Advocates on Flying in Place "The trauma of sexual abuse is described with beautiful, almost lyrical writing...The moving and compelling writing is sustained as the revelations unfold." -- Library Journal on Flying in Place "By far the best novel I''ve read about abuse and childhood." -- Feminist Bookstore News p; Observer on Flying in Place "Beyond its advantages as story and as storytelling, Flying in Place offers a very real portrayal of a very real vulnerability: not only the acute vulnerability of the betrayed, but also the residual fear that our society forces upon all girls and women. The portrayal is a subtle one, and all the more effective for that." -- Voice of Youth Advocates on Flying in Place "The trauma of sexual abuse is described with beautiful, almost lyrical writing...The moving and compelling writing is sustained as the revelations unfold." -- Library Journal on Flying in Place "By far the best novel I''ve read about abuse and childhood." -- Feminist Bookstore News p; Observer on Flying in Place "Beyond its advantages as story and as storytelling, Flying in Place offers a very real portrayal of a very real vulnerability: not only the acute vulnerability of the betrayed, but also the residual fear that our society forces upon all girls and women. The portrayal is a subtle one, and all the more effective for that." -- Voice of Youth Advocates on Flying in Place "The trauma of sexual abuse is described with beautiful, almost lyrical writing...The moving and compelling writing is sustained as the revelations unfold." -- Library Journal on Flying in Place "By far the best novel I''ve read about abuse and childhood." -- Feminist Bookstore News p; Observer on Flying in Place "Beyond its advantages as story and as storytelling, Flying in Place offers a very real portrayal of a very real vulnerability: not only the acute vulnerability of the betrayed, but also the residual fear that our society forces upon all girls and women. The portrayal is a subtle one, and all the more effective for that." -- Voice of Youth Advocates on Flying in Place "The trauma of sexual abuse is described with beautiful, almost lyrical writing...The moving and compelling writing is sustained as the revelations unfold." -- Library Journal on Flying in Place "By far the best novel I''ve read about abuse and childhood." -- Feminist Bookstore News en. The portrayal is a subtle one, and all the more effective for that." -- Voice of Youth Advocates on Flying in Place "The trauma of sexual abuse is described with beautiful, almost lyrical writing...The moving and compelling writing is sustained as the revelations unfold." -- Library Journal on Flying in Place "By far the best novel I''ve read about abuse and childhood." -- Feminist Bookstore News

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