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Flying in Place

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Another author I never heard of (before or since), a book I never heard of, picked up off a book rack at the checkout of a local general store. Read the first 30 pages one night. Started the next night...and was up till 4AM finishing it! Absolutley could not put it down. I still tell people about it to this day, and I read it in 1992! Original, with real-life characters, it uses the "supernatural" not as it is used in ghost stories or horror, but as a backdrop that reveals the real-life events slowly unfolding, brilliantly and movingly telling of events of the past repeated in the present. Not an upbeat ending, but not downbeat, either. More about acceptance and cautious hope for the future, but laced with a touching sadness. To this day, absolutely one of the most memorable and devastating books I have ever read.

Recently I read one of the saddest yet intriguing book with the most unpredictable endings. In the beginning I thought that it couldn't get any more boring. As I read further the plot started to unravel and as it did I automatically clinged to the book. What I like the most about the book was the way the author described the scenes, so well you can picture them in your head. The most interesting part of the book was when they compare a scripture passage to Ginny's life (the dead sister that will give revelations to Emma soon after the same thing would happen to her) and the life that Emma would have. I thought the book was unexpectedly great. It caught my attention and I know the story of Emma's live as the book wrote it would probably never escape my mind.

I was captivated by this book. Once I started reading it I could not put it down. After I read the book it stuck with me for days. This book made me cry and realize that there are children out there lost in a world of adult lust and confusion. I passed this book on and everyone that read it was touched. I cant wait unitl she comes out with something else.

In Wisconsin, everyone in the small town thinks highly of surgeon Dr. Stewart Gray, who dines with the elite. However, the much adulated Dr. Gray hides a dark side from public view. Every night after his wife an English teacher falls asleep he visits his twelve years old daughter Emma to have his sexual way with her. Uncomfortable and with no place to escape, Emma flies away in her mind though her body remains in place. On her mental trips she begins meeting her sister Ginny who at ten years old died long before Emma was born.

Emma becomes more withdrawn with every nocturnal visit as her only friend is her sibling's spirit. School nurse Halloran notices the bruises on Emma's body and the negative trends of withdrawal and grades collapsing; she soon concludes that the epitome of upper crust society Stewart was assaulting his child. Still it is hard to prove until Emma's Aunt Donna arrives; she knows the real Dr. Stewart Gray not the image and believes history is repeating itself.

FLYING IN PLACE is a deep thought provoking reprint of an insightful very dark early 1990s tale. The key characters are purposely left as two dimensional. This approach enables the reader to decide whether the two sisters are actually flying together or just a defense mechanism of the preadolescent, but also restricts the cast as women are courageous or victims and men nice or sinful. Black and white with no gray, FLYING IN PLACE grips the reader from the moment the mask falls off of Stewart and never eases the emotional shock until Donna confronts him.

Harriet Klausner

Recently I have read one of the saddest yet intriguing book with the most unpredictable ending. In the beginning I thought that it couldn't get any more boring, but as I read further the plot of the book started to unravel. As it did I automatically clinged to the book. What I like about the book was the way the author describes the scenes so you can picture them in your head, so well. The part of the book that I found more interesting is when they compare a scripture passage to Ginny's life (the dead sister that would give revelations to Emma soon after the same thing would happen to her) and the life that Emma would have. I thought the book was unexpectedly great. It caught my attention and I know the story of Emma's life as the book tells it will probably never escaped my mind.

Just a fascinating book that just accelerates in interest like a runaway locomotive. Very original and captivating.

Bought this book in a dollar store about 5+ years ago. Thought if I didn't like it, it was just a buck. Loved it, I would have paid 25.00, if I knew it was going to be that good. I could not put the book down. It has been passed around to all my friends and their friends. All thought it was a great read. Best dollar I ever spent.

This is such a good book. I read it in one day because I just couldn't put it down.

This book was recommended by my therapist. It is a deeply touching, well-written story that is easy to read and provides insight into the deepest thoughts of the main character, Emma, a victim of incest, and how she deals with and untimately overcomes her abuse. I look forward to reading other books by this author.

This is a very well written, good book. It really teaches about the emotional and psychological damage sexual abuse can cause. It helped me write a paper about suffering. I recommend that everyone read this sometime in their life.