Night Flight, by Rita Murphy
Good short YA novel about growing up and being able to fly and all
(Review posted 6 Jun 2004 18:14:44)

Like I need more reasons to want to be a teenage girl living in Vermont; sheesh.

This particular teenage girl comes from a matrilineal line that inherits the ability to fly. They don't do superhero things with the ability or anything (it's hard, and chancy), but they build bonding rituals around it in their big ramshackle farmhouse far from town. And the tensions among the women, and the flying, and the coming-of-age, and power and silence and secrets, make for a good story. (For the same basic sorts of reasons I've mentioned before.)

After reading this book I did feel it necessary to go out into the living room and formally announce to the kids that M and I really are their real parents, despite the ideas they may have been getting from their reading...