Last summer,Lynn Steger Strongenraptured readers with her brisk, blunt novelWant.
Strong spoke to EW to exclusively announce the book and tease what audiences can look forward to.
Can you give us the elevator pitch forFlight?
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My very short elevator pitch is that a matriarch dies and a little girl goes missing.
And a smaller family is also trying to figure out how to love one another.
What is the inspiration for the title?
How did the idea for this novel start to form?
I started thinking about visual art and groups of women.
There are multiple points of view.
It’s all just me [laughs].
And all the ways that our traumas haunt the way we attempt to care for other people.
Looking forward to publication, is there anything that you hope will be different this time around?
What are we supposed to hope for [laughs]?
I thinkWant, parts of its outlook were sort of bleak.
That those feelings don’t have to be schmaltzy but can be real and alive.
