Hardcover, 416 pages
Published
May 24th 2016 by NAL
Georgia
Chambers has spent her life sifting through other people’s pasts while trying
to forget her own. But then her work as an expert of fine china—especially of Limoges—requires
her to return to the one place she swore she’d never revisit...It’s been thirteen years since Georgia left her family home on the coast of Florida, and nothing much has changed, except that there are fewer oysters and more tourists. She finds solace seeing her grandfather still toiling away in the apiary where she spent much of her childhood, but encountering her estranged mother and sister leaves her rattled.
Seeing them after all this time makes Georgia realize that something has been missing—and unless she finds a way to heal these rifts, she will forever be living vicariously through other people’s remnants. To embrace her own life—mistakes and all—she will have to find the courage to confront the ghosts of her past and the secrets she was forced to keep...
My Thoughts…
Flight
Patterns is such a wonderful Southern story.
There is a complex and difficult family dynamic set in Florida. I enjoyed the two different timelines shared
in the story.
The
current story tells of Georgia returning to her family after being apart for 10
years. Maisy, Georgia’s sister, has
been at the home this whole time raising her daughter, Becky, and taking care
of her mother, Birdie, and her grandfather.
There is a history between Georgia and Maisy that needs to be taken care
of before they can continue to live their lives. The story between them is wonderful and
perfectly told. I could feel the love
between them and the want/need for them to reconnect and become the sisters
they were growing up.
The
second timeline is Birdie’s to tell.
She does not speak at this time and no one knows why. Well, almost no one. Her daughters want to find out what happen
to cause her to go into herself and stop communicating. I found it interesting that the ONLY
person she would communicate with is her granddaughter, Becky. There were times when Birdie was telling
her story and I wondered if she was remembering it correctly and when she would
be able to share it with the rest of her family.
Flight
Patterns is amazing. I can say that I
know more about bees and their habits than I probably will ever need to
know. I highly recommend this sweet,
tender, and beautiful southern charm story.
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“Her perceptivity of family complexities and the
extraordinary never-saw-them-coming epiphanies make this a one-of-a-kind
story.” –RT Reviews
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