![]() ![]() ![]() In turn, she introduces the other members of the family: Kate and Josh, who are struggling financially after a bad investment, and Alice and Henry, who are hosting the family for Christmas in upstate New York. With those two moods – of familial tension and of relentless loss – Strong, who is the Visiting Fiction Writer at Bates College, sets the novel into motion. “(T)hey’ll not be in Florida for Christmas for the first time in their lives because eight months ago their mother died.” “He thinks briefly he might call his mother,” Strong writes – and then explains why he doesn’t, and why Tess and Martin are traveling. ![]() Through their terse conversation, we learn relatively early that there’s a strain in their relationship, and that it has to do with Martin’s job. “Flight” opens on one of the couples at the heart of the novel, Tess and Martin, packing for a Christmas gathering. ![]()
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