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Night
Flying
Rita
Murphy
Random House
Young Adult
ISBN: 038532748X
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an Excerpt.
In
Rita Murphy's award winning first novel, NIGHT FLYING, the
ability to fly is both a gift and a burden. Like the women
of Alice Hoffman's novel PRACTICAL MAGIC, the women of the
Hansen family can fly --- and have been doing so for generations.
Unfortunately, however, their gift is bound by a strict code
of rules laid down by family matriarch Grandmother Hansen.
Her rules are as follows: no solo flying until a flier is
initiated at age 16; a meatless diet; no men; and, more importantly,
no daytime flying. After all, the Hansen "gift" must be kept
a secret --- but at what cost?
Grandmother
Hansen is domineering and cold and she controls the family
fortune as well as the lives of her daughters and granddaughter
with an iron fist. But family secrets are set to fly as 16-year-old
Georgia Hansen's initiation ceremony draws near. Will Georgia
follow in the footsteps of her rebellious "Aunt" Carmen, who
was banished from the family for breaking the rules; or will
she fall in line with the rest of the Hansen clan in accepting
Grandmother Hansen's controlling yet steadfast protection.
Readers
will rally behind Georgia as she attempts to weigh the importance
of her heritage against the right to control her own life.
Those with the ability to suspend disbelief will be eager
to soar with Georgia on her newfound wings of self-determination.
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Reviewed by Tammy L. Currier
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