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    Flying at Night
    Audiobook11 hours

    Flying at Night

    Written by Rebecca L. Brown

    Narrated by Rebecca L. Brown, Cassandra Campbell, Kivlighan De Montebello and Arthur Morey

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    An emotionally charged debut novel of a family on the brink—an autistic child, his determined mother, and her distant father—who learn that when your world changes, you find out who you really are. . . .

    While she was growing up, Piper's father, Lance "the Silver Eagle" Whitman, became a national hero piloting a plane through an emergency landing. But at home, he was a controlling and overbearing presence in her life, raining emotional and verbal abuse upon the entire family.

    It's no surprise, then, that as an adult, Piper has poured all of her energy into creating a warm and loving home for her own family, while catering to her son Fred's ever-growing idiosyncrasies.

    Then Lance has a heart attack, leaving him with a brain injury—and dependent upon Piper for his care—just before tests confirm Piper's suspicions that Fred is on the autism spectrum.

    A powerful and extraordinary novel, Flying at Night gives voice to Fred, trying to find his place in a world that doesn't quite understand him; to Lance, who's lost what made him the man he was, for better and worse; and to Piper, who, while desperately trying to navigate the shifting landscape around her, watches as her son and father start to connect—in the most miraculous ways. . . .

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateApr 10, 2018
    ISBN9780525530701
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    • 5/5
      This is a well written debut novel about a family with issues. Piper is the mother of an autistic son. She’s still trying to adjust to this new diagnosis as well as deal with her absent husband. While all this is going on, her father suffers a severe heart attack that leaves him with brain damage. When his wife can not longer cope with her husband, and does not want to take care of him, Piper moves him into her home to care for him.

      This story is told from the POVs of Piper, Fred, and Lance (Piper’s father). Flying at Night is an emotional story about family, parenthood, guilt, and unconditional love. None of us are perfect and the things that happen to us aren’t always fair. This is precisely why this novel felt so real. The characters are flawed, their relationships are imperfect and life doles out some things that are difficult to accept and deal with. Piper’s guilt over Fred’s diagnosis, along with the burdensome nature of having to be a caregiver to her father especially rang true. I loved Fred’s character and appreciated the bits of humor his voice added to the novel. The narrative moved smoothly between these three perspectives. This was a very emotional story, with a lot of life lessons, truth and anguish. I felt close to all the characters and my heart ached for them. I turned the last page and wish I didn’t have to say goodbye. This is Rebecca Brown's debut novel and is loosely based on her own experiences raising a child with autism. I look forward to reading more from her in the future. I highly recommend! The publisher, Penguin Publishing Group - Berkley, generously provided me with a copy of this book to read. The rating, ideas and opinions are my own.
    • 2/5
      This book is another one of those that is driven by characters. Yet, in this book I found that emotional connection with the characters lacking. Even though, Lance and Fred did get some of my sympathy. The innocence of Lance and Fred was sweet. However, because the emotions, I agree with other readers that it seemed to be over-empathized in what the characters were going through. The flow was a bit forced. Although, I did keep reading this book to the end in the hopes that I would feel differently about it. My feelings did not change. I would have liked to say that I really liked this book a lot but I can't.
    • 5/5
      Such a heartfelt story of love, family and lose.
    • 5/5
      Being part of the sandwich generation means that you are taking care of children and parents at the same time. The main character in this debut novel is doing just that but with the added pressure of having a child and a parent with numerous problems. I found her life to be difficult and depressing but the way she handles it all is fantastic and is what makes this such a wonderful book.Piper's father is an arrogant man who made her life and the lives of her mother and brother very difficult growing up. He expected perfection in all things and was emotional distant from his family - especially after he became a hero for piloting an airplane during a difficult landing without loss of life. Piper's son, Fred, is nine years old and Piper has worked very hard to provide a loving nurturing family for him due to the trauma of her childhood. Her husband and Fred's father is busy saving the world through his job and is usually at work. He doesn't take much part in Fred's upbringing but is it deliberate or because Piper doesn't want to share Fred with him? Fred was a wonderfully written character - he is enthusiastic about life but it is apparent very early in the book that he has a problem and when he is diagnosed as being on the autism spectrum, Piper falls apart. Just as she gets Fred's diagnosis, her dad has a heart attack and brain damage from being without oxygen. Piper brings her dad into her home and now has to deal with heartache and problems from son and father. The novel is about Piper's dad and son and Piper as they learn to live with the problems that life has given them and hopefully overcome their problems for a better future.This is a book that at time is sad but is overwhelmingly heartwarming to see family members learn to better understand each other. I loved this book and highly recommend it.Thanks to FirsttoRead for a copy of this book to read and review. All opinions are my own.
    • 4/5
      This was an excellent read! I absolutely enjoyed this novel.
    • 4/5
      Fly at Night was emotionally pulling. I felt for Piper, I disliked her mother, I wanted to give her husband a guiding hand, and I wanted to hug her son. Piper was overwhelmed. Her mother was selfish, although with the abusive lifestyle she lived in she was due to be selfish. Her husband just needs someone to show him what to do, he wants to help but doesn’t quite know what to do. Curtis, her son, has autism and lives a full life with just some idiosyncrasies that make him sometimes hard to understand. I felt for Piper. She is a stay at home mom with so much on her plate and she doesn’t ask for help. Piper has an autistic son, a father who is now mentally challenged after having a heart attack, and a husband who seems to want to help but doesn’t know what to do. Add to that a mother who walked away and left her to deal with everything. I am not sure how much more she could handle without crumbling.This book was interesting, I enjoyed it. Yet, it felt like I was reading a story. I know I was but I like to fall into my books, become attached to the characters, and become invested in the plot. With Fly at Night I wasn’t as invested in the story. I enjoyed it, I wanted to know what happens, and I am glad that I took the time to read it.
    • 5/5
      Flying at Night is author Rebecca L. Brown’s debut novel about a family in crisis: a child who has just been placed on the autism spectrum, an overbearing controlling man who was unexpectedly dying but is now unexpectedly living, and a woman who is a wife, a mother and a daughter trying to cope with change, as everything that could go wrong does go wrong.I don’t have an autistic child nor much familiarity with autism at all, other than knowing that autistic kids don't "get it" like others do and defend themselves in ways other kids probably wouldn't. But the author does have an autistic child, and the picture she paints of daily life seems very real and much deeper than “they just don’t get it.”The story is told through three points of view: Fred the autistic child, Lance the hero to the nation but an emotional and verbal abuser to his family, and Piper, the woman who is trying to hold it all together. The three POVs work, especially the contrast between Lance before and after the heart attack. Seeing things through different eyes added depth to the story.Piper has worked hard to create a warm and loving home for her own family that is nothing like the home she grew up in. She is patient and calm and doesn’t seem surprised or very disturbed by Fred’s behavior, to the point of catering to what she wants to believe are just his idiosyncrasies. Her husband Isaac also seems devoted to the family, but equally devoted to his job and is never home. So that leaves Piper running a one-woman show, and things are piling up and spinning out of control. On the surface it seems hard to believe that Piper didn’t already realize Fred is autistic; she worked with autistic children in college and he has been displaying more and more symptoms. But Piper has a very deep need to resist, to stop this from being true. She knows how hard his life is going to be and her heart breaks over it and she will not allow it. While life with Fred can often be frustrating and sometimes sad, it also seems very rewarding. Some of what he says is unintentionally funny, and he goes right to the heart of an issue, discarding what isn’t relevant or important.Piper’s feelings about her father seem as strong as those about Fred, but in the other direction. Her childhood was horrible, so horrible that her brother said his goodbyes and considers it done, and her mother was so relieved when she thought Lance was going to die that she cannot put herself back into a life that includes him, even if the nursing home she has placed him in is inadequate. I think it even surprises Piper when she begins to take care of her father. She wanted him to die as much as her mother and brother did, even to the point of considering smothering him, but in the end, she cannot turn away.Flying at Night is a captivating story. While not always easy to understand or very likeable, all of the characters are endearing in one way or another, and you can feel Piper’s emotions and her desire to do what is right for everyone. I received a copy of Flying at Night from Berkley Publishing and definitely recommend it.
    • 4/5
      Piper Hart has a nine-year-old boy named Fred. She is a stay at home mom and her lawyer husband Isaac works long hours. Piper is very close to her son and overlooks his obsessive peculiarities and deficient social skills. After a conference at Fred’s school, she realizes that Fred’s issues could be serious. She will put him through a series of tests to see if he is on the autism spectrum.At the same time Piper’s father, Lance, suffers a massive heart attack. He survives but has severe memory loss and occupational issues. Piper and the rest of her family do not have fond memories of their abusive and domineering father. Lance was a commercial pilot and everyone was happiest when he was off traveling. After his heart attack, it is clear that Lance cannot live on his own, and no family member wants the role of caregiver. Piper reluctantly finds herself providing care to her father after he moves into her house. At the same time, she works to adapt to a child on the autism spectrum while maintaining a healthy relationship with her husband. This is a thoughtful debut novel by Rebecca L. Brown. Flying At Night provides interesting insights into family dynamics and the emotions encountered raising children. I look forward to more novels by the author.