false 3392006 1 At 34 years of age, Scarlet has come home for the passing of her famous mother, the bird artist Addie Kavanaugh. The year is 2002. Though Addie and her husband, the world-renowned ornithologist Tom Kavanaugh, have made their life in southeastern Pennsylvania, Addie has chosen to die at the home of her dearest friend, Cora. This is because their ramshackle cottage in Burnham, Pennsylvania, is filled with so much history and because, in the last ten years or so, even birdsong has seemed to make Addie angry, or sad, or both. These are the things that Scarlet needs to understand. Cora and Lou (the third woman in Addie's circle) will help Scarlet to see her mother in full. In addition, Scarlet carries her own secret into these foggy days-a secret for Addie, one that involves Cora, too. Joyce Hinnefeld's debut novel is rich in so many ways beyond the taut mother-daughter dynamic and the competition among even the closest of women. The natural world, an artist's vision, the intensity of long-lasting love, the flight of a bird's song and the sighting of an extinct-or perhaps illusory-samll creature all work to shape the plot of the novel. Even the prose seems filled with birdsong-at once raucous and transporting. In its structure and style, In Hovering Flight follows in the tradition of writers like Virginia Woolf, Harriet Doerr and Carol Shields: musical and dramatic, with myriad stories and voices. But the evocative language of this soaring novel is Hinnefeld's own. 3431876 16 9 2008 In Hovering Flight total:85|5:14|4:34|3:27|2:6|1:4| 85 303 186 41 3 0 false false Sun Jan 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 10 22:01:53 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 10 22:02:43 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 16 13:35:56 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 16 13:36:36 -0800 2008

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started out pretty well, but maybe one has to be a birder to fully appreciate this one. SPOILER ALERT...Only on page 40, but having been through this recently, I can s...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Sep 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 03 18:39:42 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 03 18:40:04 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Nov 15 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 23 12:53:41 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 23 13:05:09 -0800 2008 1 ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 26 09:21:43 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 26 09:24:47 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 20 13:08:45 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 20 13:16:40 -0800 2008 Childhood and college friends remain intimates throughout their lives; supporting and loving each other. Artistic and principled life commitments are the themes of the novel; you'll learn a lot about birds. I was glad I read this book and would suggest doing it in a few consecutive readings; ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Apr 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 14 07:20:21 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 05 17:49:44 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri May 22 12:13:13 -0700 2009 Fri May 22 12:15:15 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Jan 11 14:03:35 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 11 14:06:52 -0800 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Sep 28 18:00:14 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 18 13:25:50 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 19 08:47:21 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 17 11:19:21 -0700 2008
Asking you to be quiet and listen, In Hovering Flight is a book about an uncommon family, an artist/activist, her husband the scientist, and their daughter the poet. Each of the characters is lovingly developed, with the light touch of ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Feb 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 18 06:42:56 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 18 06:45:18 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Tue Feb 03 15:04:03 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 10 16:03:02 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 11 06:55:45 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 11 06:57:03 -0700 2009
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