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Flying in Place by Susan Palwick
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- Publisher: Doherty, Tom Associates, LLC
- Pub. Date: May 2005
- ISBN-13: 9780641837975
- Sales Rank: 34,310
- 192pp
- Edition Description: Bargain
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Synopsis
Once in a while, a first novel arrives like a bolt of lightning, commanding attention with an explosion of power, grace, and light. Flying in Place is such a book. As unflinching as The Lovely Bones, as startling as Beloved, it is a work to bear witness--with bravery and compassion--for the experience of millions of readers and their loved ones.
Emma is twelve, a perfectly normal girl, in a perfectly normal home. With a perfectly normal father...who comes into her bedroom every night in the hours before dawn. Emma will do anything to escape. From the visits. From the bodies. From the breathing. Even go walking on the ceiling--which is where Emma meets Ginny, the sister who died before she was born. Ginny, who knows things. Ginny, who can fly....
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In the tradition of The Joy Luck Club and Ordinary People, a stunning first novel by the winner of the World Fantasy Award. Flying in Place is the story of Emma, a 12-year-old girl who is abused by her highly respected surgeon father. Emma's secret is too terrible to reveal, but too painful to endure much longer. . . . Reissue.
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Susan Palwick teaches at the University of Nevada in Reno. FLYING IN PLACE is her first novel.
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deep thought provoking tale
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, A reviewer, 05/07/2005
In Wisconsin, everyone in the small town thinks highly of surgeon Dr. Stewart Gray, who dines with the elite. However, the much adulated Dr. Gray hides a dark side from public view. Every night after his wife an English teacher falls asleep he visits his twelve years old daughter Emma to have his sexual way with her. Uncomfortable and with no place to escape, Emma flies away in her mind though her body remains in place. On her mental trips she begins meeting her sister Ginny who at ten years old died long before Emma was born. --- Emma becomes more withdrawn with every nocturnal visit as her only friend is her sibling’s spirit. School nurse Halloran notices the bruises on Emma’s body and the negative trends of withdrawal and grades collapsing; she soon concludes that the epitome of upper crust society Stewart was assaulting his child. Still it is hard to prove until Emma’s Aunt Donna arrives; she knows the real Dr. Stewart Gray not the image and believes history is repeating itself. --- FLYING IN PLACE is a deep thought provoking reprint of an insightful very dark early 1990s tale. The key characters are purposely left as two dimensional. This approach enables the reader to decide whether the two sisters are actually flying together or just a defense mechanism of the preadolescent, but also restricts the cast as women are courageous or victims and men nice or sinful. Black and white with no gray, FLYING IN PLACE grips the reader from the moment the mask falls off of Stewart and never eases the emotional shock until Donna confronts him.--- Harriet Klausner
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