Hardcover, 304 pages
Expected publication: April 10th 2018 by Berkley Books
An emotionally charged debut novel, told through the voices of
three family members, who learn that when your world changes, so does your
destination....
Stay-at-home mom Piper Whitman Hart is too close to her nine-year-old son Fred to realize that his idiosyncrasies are signs of something more. And just when his diagnosis of autism sends her life reeling, she's dragged back into the orbit of her emotionally abusive father, Lance, after a heart attack leaves him with brain damage.
Fred is in need of a friend. Lance is in need of care. And Piper just wants to feel stable ground beneath her feet. What she never expects is that Fred and Lance--both misunderstood by the world--will start to connect in the most miraculous of ways...
Stay-at-home mom Piper Whitman Hart is too close to her nine-year-old son Fred to realize that his idiosyncrasies are signs of something more. And just when his diagnosis of autism sends her life reeling, she's dragged back into the orbit of her emotionally abusive father, Lance, after a heart attack leaves him with brain damage.
Fred is in need of a friend. Lance is in need of care. And Piper just wants to feel stable ground beneath her feet. What she never expects is that Fred and Lance--both misunderstood by the world--will start to connect in the most miraculous of ways...
My Thoughts…
Fly at Night
was emotionally pulling. I felt for
Piper, I disliked her mother, I wanted to give her husband a guiding hand, and
I wanted to hug her son. Piper was
overwhelmed. Her mother was selfish,
although with the abusive lifestyle she lived in she was due to be
selfish. Her husband just needs
someone to show him what to do, he wants to help but doesn’t quite know what to
do. Curtis, her son, has autism and
lives a full life with just some idiosyncrasies that make him sometimes hard to
understand.
I felt for Piper. She
is a stay at home mom with so much on her plate and she doesn’t ask for
help. Piper has an autistic son, a
father who is now mentally challenged after having a heart attack, and a
husband who seems to want to help but doesn’t know what to do. Add to that a mother who walked away and
left her to deal with everything. I
am not sure how much more she could handle without crumbling.
This book was interesting, I enjoyed it. Yet, it felt like I was reading a
story. I know I was but I like to fall
into my books, become attached to the characters, and become invested in the
plot. With Fly at Night I wasn’t as
invested in the story. I enjoyed it, I
wanted to know what happens, and I am glad that I took the time to read
it.
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