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Pam Houston
W. W. Norton & Company
February 2012
On Sale: February 6, 2012
320 pages ISBN: 0393082652 EAN: 9780393082654 Kindle: B005LW5JGM Hardcover / e-Book
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Fiction Family Life
Heart-stopping prose and crackling observations on a
spiritual journey toward a life rich in love and freedom.
Stuck in a dead-end relationship, this fearless narrator
leaves her metaphorical baggage behind and finds a comfort
zone in the air, “feeling safest with one plane ticket in
her hand and another in her underwear drawer.” She flies
around the world, finding reasons to love life in dozens of
far-flung places from Alaska to Bhutan. Along the way she
weathers unplanned losses of altitude, air pressure, and
landing gear. With the help of a squad of loyal, funny, wise
friends and massage therapists, she learns to sort truth
from self-deception, self-involvement from self-possession. At last, having found a new partner “who loves Don DeLillo
and the NHL” and a daughter “who needs you to teach her to
dive and to laugh at herself”—not to mention two dogs and
two horses—“staying home becomes more of an option. Maybe.”
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