Flyaway

Format:

Book

Title:

Flyaway

Author:

Jennings, Kathleen (Illustrator) author

ISBN:

9781250260499

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

New York : Tom Doherty Associates, 2020.

Physical Description:

175 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

General Note:

"Interior art by Kathleen Jennings"--Title page verso.

Summary:

"In a small Western Queensland town, a reserved young woman receives a note from one of her vanished brothers-a note that makes question her memories of their disappearance and her father's departure. A beguiling story that proves that gothic delights and uncanny family horror can live-and even thrive-under a burning sun, Flyaway introduces readers to Bettina Scott, whose search for the truth throws her into tales of eerie dogs, vanished schools, cursed monsters, and enchanted bottles"-- Provided by publisher.

Subject(s):

Young women -- Fiction.

Families -- Fiction.

Disappeared persons -- Fiction.

Genre:

Holds:

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Library	Call Number	Status
Searching... McMinnville Public Library	Jennings, K.	Searching... Unknown
Searching... Salem Main Library	FANTASY Jennings, K.	Searching... Unknown

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Summary

A 2021 World Fantasy Award Finalist!

A 2020 Crawford Award Finalist

An Indie Next Pick!

Named a Best of 2020 Pick for NPR

Transformation, enchantment, and the emotional truths of family history teem in Kathleen Jennings' stunning debut, Flyaway .

"Kathleen Jennings' prose dazzles, and her magic feels real enough that you might even prick your finger on it."--Kelly Link

"An unforgettable tale, as beautiful as it is thorny." -- The New York Times Book Review

In a small Western Queensland town, a reserved young woman receives a note from one of her vanished brothers--a note that makes her question memories of their disappearance and her father's departure.

A beguiling story that proves that gothic delights and uncanny family horror can live--and even thrive--under a burning sun, Flyaway introduces readers to Bettina Scott, whose search for the truth throws her into tales of eerie dogs, vanished schools, cursed monsters, and enchanted bottles. Flyaway enchants you with the sly, beautiful darkness of Karen Russell and a world utterly its own.

Author Notes

Kathleen Jennings is an Australian illustrator and writer. She studied to be a lawyer. But she has created many illustrations and cover art for books by successful authors. She won the 2015 Ditmar Awards Best Artwork for Cranky Ladies of History. Her writing awards include the 2015 Ditmar Awards Best Short Story for her work, A Hedge of Yellow Roses. She also won the Best Artist category of the 2015 Ditmar Awards.

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Reviews (2)

Booklist Review

Jennings' debut is a deliciously mysterious Gothic fairy tale wrapped in elegantly descriptive prose. Nineteen-year-old Betina Scott is a proper young lady who diligently takes care of her delicately dispositioned mother. But is Tina really a good girl? Before her brothers left, folks in their small, close-knit community say Tina was always the instigator of trouble, although never the one caught or blamed. She cannot remember being that person and questions what really happened the day her father went away three years ago. Then one day a scribbled note arrives, written on the back of a three-year-old newspaper article in the handwriting of one of her brothers, that simply says, "You coward, Tink." Determined to find answers, and with the help of two friends who have reasons of their own for joining the hunt, Tina runs away to track her sibling. Teeming with folklore from the Australian Outback, this compelling mystery is laced with familial connections and interspersed with entwined tales of curses, miracles, witches, and vengeance.

Library Journal Review

With his stories already nominated for Hugo, Nebula, BSFA, Sturgeon, and World Fantasy honors, debut novelist Rosenbaum (The Ant King and Other Stories) returns with The Unraveling, which dreams up a far-future, distant-galaxy, rigidly structured society where individuals have multiple bodies and staid-gendered Fift and bail-gendered bioengineer Shria wind up in the midst of an eyebrow-raising art spectacle. Salvatore's Relentless closes his "Generations" trilogy with Zaknafein reunited with son Drizzt Do'Urden and reconciled to life's unpredictability (100,000-copy first printing).