![]() ![]() Over three days, tensions rise as the siblings, their spouses, and their children attempt to perform familiar rituals, and the whole group is forced to come together unexpectedly when a local mother and daughter need help. The siblings at the center of Lynn’s forthcoming novel, Flight, are also in a period of upheaval: It’s their first Christmas without their mother. Will she be able to free herself from the patriarchal constraints of the past? Will she embrace a new vision for her future? ![]() As she passes her days teaching at a boys’ prep school, she seeks answers to the paradoxes of love, desire, and parenthood among the Greek and Roman gods at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In The Deceptions, an unnamed narrator’s life is unraveling: her only child has left home, her twenty-year marriage is strained, and anticipation about her soon-to-be released book of poetry looms. What would life be without pondering ambition, art, family, and desire? Novelists Jill Bialosky and Lynn Steger Strong explore these themes and more in their latest respective novels, The Deceptions and Flight. This is a virtual-only program via City of Asylum Home. ![]()
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