Flight Risk, Joy Castro
Flight Risk, Joy Castro
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Flight Risk

Author: Joy Castro

Narrator: Rebecca Mozo

Unabridged: 11 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/01/2021

Synopsis

A woman is forced to face her past in a heartbreaking and triumphant novel of old wounds and family secrets by award-winning author Joy Castro.Isabel Morales is a successful Chicago sculptor hiding a brutal family history—one not even her husband knows. After decades of turning her back on her past, she’s forced to return to Appalachia when she receives news of her estranged mother’s death.But going back means revisiting the traumatic childhood she escaped—and the family that cast her out when she needed them most. Back on the land she has inherited, she’s flooded with memories of the forest where she once roamed free, of her beloved lost brother, and of the old house in the West Virginia hills where she grew up. Her mother has left her another legacy, too, which reveals secrets that Isabel is only beginning to understand.As forces bear down and threaten to take what she has left, it’s time for Isabel to step into her power, reclaim her roots, and finally confront the painful memories that have kept her from the life she truly wants.

About Joy Castro

Joy Castro is the award-winning author of the post-Katrina New Orleans literary thrillers Hell or High Water, which received the Nebraska Book Award, and Nearer Home; the story collection How Winter Began; the memoir The Truth Book; and the essay collection Island of Bones, which received the International Latino Book Award. She is also the editor of the anthology Family Trouble and served as the guest judge of CRAFT’s first Creative Nonfiction Award. Her work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Senses of Cinema, Salon, Ploughshares, Gulf Coast, Brevity, Afro-Hispanic Review, and elsewhere. A former writer-in-residence at Vanderbilt University, she is currently the Willa Cather Professor of English and Ethnic Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Reviews

Goodreads review by JUDY C WISE

Disappointed Was really liking the book until she inserted the bit about President Trump. That was totally unnecessary and cheap! Guess this will be my one and only book of hers that I will read!......more

Goodreads review by Elsa

Title: Flight Risk Author: Joy Castro Book #97-2021 Start: 10/8 - 10/10 Rating 4 stars Setting: Chicago 50% & West Virginia 50% Length: 330 pgs ; 46 chapters Published: 11/2021 Stand Alone Very eloquently written book it even seemed a little lyrical which I really don't usually like. I have to admit I had to......more

Goodreads review by Bader

an emotional rollercoaster… my lesson learned is that you must acknowledge your past, forgive yourself and others before you can move forward, heal and love. The past is part of who we are but does not define who we might become. I loved this book- thank you Joy Castro......more

Goodreads review by Donna

Isobel Morales is an artist who lives with her husband in Chicago. She has a tragic family history that she keeps secret. But when she returns to Appalachia for her mother's funeral, secrets have a way of coming to the surface... I enjoyed this book. I had read a review where the person said the auth......more

Goodreads review by Suzanne

good until it got political. I was enjoying the book a lot, but then she had to bring the 2016 election into it, and that is when I was done. We all have our own beliefs and ideals, it why spoil a good book by letting the Americans choice ruin it.......more

Quotes

“…the characters and emotions portrayed make this well worth reading.” —Booklist“In Flight Risk, [Castro] does an excellent job at balancing the ambiguity of her characters’ choices, while challenging readers’ expectations. Raised in West Virginia, she shows her insider knowledge in the concerns and interactions of the characters.” —Los Angeles Review of Books“Joy Castro’s writing is like watching an Acapulco cliff diver. It takes my breath away every time.” —Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street

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