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by Rita Murphy

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Rita Murphy, Night Flying (Delacorte, 2000). Night Flying is one of those young adult books I happened to pick up by accident because it was in the wrong section at the Case book sale. Glad I did, because this is a fun little book

Rita Murphy, Night Flying (Delacorte, 2000). Rita Murphy, Night Flying (Delacorte, 2000)

Flying is something we do at night when everyone is asleep. Twice around the meadow or once over the ridge to clear our heads before settling in for the evening. My aunt Suki stayed out all night once when she was sixteen.

Flying is something we do at night when everyone is asleep.

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Life for Georgia Hansen on the eve of her 16th birthday isn't easy

Life for Georgia Hansen on the eve of her 16th birthday isn't easy. Georgia Hansen can fly. All the women in her family can. They fly at night, when the world sleeps, for no one must discover their secret. Georgia will soon turn 16 and make her first solo flight, taking up her birthright with a special ceremony to mark the occasion. But her anticipation is disrupted with the arrival of her rebellious Aunt Carmen. Twice around the meadow or once over the ridge clear our heads before settling in for the evening. The first woman in our family to fly was Louisa Hansen, my andmother. She came to America from Albania more than one hundred years ago. A dark, wiry woman full of Gypsy blood. They say it was her broken heart that propelled her soaring over the sea.

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The daughter of a pianist and an English teacher, she grew up surrounded by stories, rhythm and the creative process. After her son was born in 1992, she discovered her love of storytelling and began writing short stories.

Georgia Hansen can fly. All the women in her family can. They fly at night when the world sleeps, for no one must discover their secret. Georgia will soon turn 16 and make her first solo flight, taking up her birthright with a special ceremony to mark the occasion. But her anticipation is disrupted with the arrival of her rebellious Aunt Carmen. Banished from the family years before for breaking the strict code of flying enforced by Georgia’s grandmother, this unknown aunt reveals the true price of her family’s gift, for the Hansen rules of flying are strict and unforgiving. In this powerful coming-of-age novel, Georgia must weigh the cost of her heritage against her passion for flight.

Arlelond

I happened upon a partial reading of this story on my local NPR station and wanted to hear the whole story. It took some doing to track it down, it appears to be rather old. Could not find any new CD's at all and finally located a used version. Disc 1 and 2 played with no problem, but Disc 3 is damaged and at first would not play at all. Now I finally got it going in my car CD player and I am afraid to take it out before I have listened to the whole disc. A great story, though and suitable for all ages.

Arakus

Rita Murphy, Night Flying (Delacorte, 2000)
Night Flying is one of those young adult books I happened to pick up by accident because it was in the wrong section at the Case book sale. Glad I did, because this is a fun little book. Murphy never talks down to her audience, refreshing in a YA novel, and better yet, adult readers won't gag on the sentiment. Murphy has a message, but she is as good as any novelist writing for adults (and better than most) at making it palatable.
Georgia Hansen is on the eve of her sixteenth birthday. To say her life has been something less than conventional would be an understatement. She lives in a house with only women, none of whom work (all are living off the inheritance of her great-grandfather, an inventor who died with enough to ensure that Georgia's granddaughters will never have to work, either) and all of whom can fly. They do so only under the auspices of very strict rules; each female member of the family adds a rule as time goes on. You can imagine what it's like after a few generations. All, with the exception of wayward Aunt Carmen (who lives across the country), are under the thumb of Georgia's grandmother, a stern and humorless individual whose main goal seems to be making life miserable for her offspring and their offspring.
Things start to get messy when Carmen comes back for Georgia's birthday celebration. Georgia immediately forms a love/hate relationship with her, yearning after Carmen's freedom while wondering how someone could so easily slip the bonds of family obligation. (It's not so simple as all that, of course, which Georgia finds out eventually, but so the relationship begins).
At its core, this is a pretty simple coming-of-age tale, albeit with magical-realistic elements. Murphy, as with the best of the magical realist authors, never allows the trappings to get in the way of her story, especially her character development. Everyone, major characters and minor, is well developed and has a place in the little sonata that is this novel; not a note falls out of place. The allegory is somewhat obvious (the ability to fly is gained, but suppressed until the sixteenth birthday), and the action in the climax somewhat predictable, but Murphy addresses the subject form a perspective that is not often seen; she's a young adults' author writing from the perspective of a young adult who has a brain of her own, rather than showing a young adult whose beliefs and opinions are just those of a "more mature" (read: adult) mindset. This, more than anything, lends the book its magical realism; the idea that
sometimes the kids really are correct.
A fine read. ****

Rias

The women in the Hansen family have always had the power to fly. Georgia has been fling for as long as she remembers and when she turns 16 she will be able to fly by herself for the first time. But everything gets screwed up when Georgia's Aunt Carmen comes to visit. The aunt that has been banished from the family. Suddenly Georgia's perception on her solo flight, her grandmother's harsh rules, and her life is changed. So when she commits an unforgivable offense, how will her family react?
I loved this book. It's was VERY short but still a wonderful read. Georgia is easy to relate to and reading her story just makes you wanna fly. If you like stories with just a pinch (or more) of the supernatural in them this book is for you.

Mavivasa

Georgia Hansen, along with all the other women in her family posses a special gift: the ability to fly. Despite the freedom that this type of power affords, the Hansen women's existence is controlled by rules created by Georgia's domineering grandmother. Even though Georgia knows the rules are essential to her family's survival, she can not help but feel stifled by them and dreams of a world where the only rule is that there are no rules.
While she is preparing for her first solo flight, Georgia's mysterious Aunt Carmen returns home after being banished from the family farm for rebelling against the rules. By accident (or by design) she reveals to Georgia secrets about her past and sets her off into a fit or rage and confusion during which she breaks one of the family's most important rules.
Rita Murphy's debut novel is a wonderful story about a young girl on the verge of becoming a women who is struggling to define her own self against a backdrop of rules and family secrets. Anyone can relate to Georgia's struggle between living up to her family's expectations of her and fulfilling her own desires. The language is simple, yet it paints a beautiful picture of rural Vermont that readers of any age can appreciate.

watching to future

I am an adult who enjoys "Young Adult" books like Harry Potter, Pendragon, Remnants, Everworld, etc. The other reviews described the book well so I only have one other comment to add... I picked this book up at the library and read it in a day. It was a very easy read, a simple but compelling story. I think it is a little too young to be classified as "Young Adult" but do not take that as a criticism. I just think it is a great book for girls, ages 10 to 13. I enjoyed the book so much though that I will be buying it to keep on the bookshelf for my daughter - who is almost 4 - to read when she is older.

black coffe

Night Flying by Rita Murphy is an unusual story of a young girl, Georgia, growing up with a house full of women, her overbearing grandmother, her meek and loving mother, and two of her aunts, all of which are �night flyers�. Grandmother rules the house with such strict guidelines such as no men in the house, no flying in the day, no meat, and the list of rules goes on and on. Everyone in the house obeys grandmother for fear that they will be cast out of the family like Carmen, one of Georgia�s aunts. Georgia often wonders, �Who is this mysterious aunt that everyone talks about in such hushed tones and why was she outcast?� Georgia finds the answer to that question and many more when she decides to go out on her own and break a few of grandmother�s rules. Georgia stands up to her grandmother and sets a new standard for her mother and her aunts to follow.