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Summary: The unraveling of a family.
Review: Told in the first person, by a man named Pilot after his father's love of flying; we are entrenched in the bizarre happenings of a family gone awry. We meet Pilot, who is a paranoid schizophrenic, right after he has suffered a psychotic event, where he believes he remembers what happened to his sister Fiona who disappeared at the age of seven. The book takes off in several directions leaving the reader wondering what is real, and what is the meandering mind of a psychotic. His mother tells us in the first paragraph that she is seeing ghosts. Pilot's brother Eric is a neurosurgeon that seems to deal with it all quite calmly and efficiently. Their father is out of the picture but that is still yet another slice of the story to be dealt with. The author does a superb job of climbing inside the chaotic mind of someone who is deranged, but all is not always as it seems. There are many characters on the stage set by this novel, and there are several suspects. The truth is so gruesome it is not for the faint of heart. I found this book unnerving, but I also could not stop listening to it. Kelsana 5/8/02
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