Flights

A thirteen-year-old hatches a plan of escape, solace, and utter independence through a dream of flight that''s both literal and figurative in this engrossing novel by National Book Award finalist Jim ShepardAs beset by the world as any thirteen-year-old—and maybe a little more so—Biddy Siebert does his best to negotiate both the intimacies and isolations of his world and his own maddening and slig...