She says writing, for her, is a way to explore the elasticity of language. Strong’s omniscient narration leads us through each person’s experience of the reunion. Her three children and their spouses, with Helen’s grandchildren, convene on one of the couple’s homes in upstate New York, where the world is frozen over, to discuss what to do with Helen’s house down in Florida, their childhood home. “The project of the book was the organism, the group, and not the individual,” says Strong.įlight takes place at Christmastime in a family that has just lost its matriarch, Helen. Perhaps what’s different about Flight, Strong’s third book, is that it takes a broader view, examining the dynamics among members of an extended family. Want is narrated by its main character and centers on her personal experience. Her second, Want, was fueled by rage and followed a couple’s struggle to raise children in Brooklyn after filing for bankruptcy. Her first, Hold Still, followed the story of a mother and daughter repairing their bond after a tragedy.
Yet each of Strong’s novels is, in some way, about family. I suddenly realized that I wrote a quiet novel about family,” says Lynn Steger Strong, author of the new novel Flight, out this month from HarperCollins.
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