Once, a long time ago, I walked down a night-darkened road called Firefly Lane, all alone, on the worst night of my life, and I found a kindred spirit. That was our beginning. More than thirty years ago. kinako and kirino. You and me against the world. Best friends forever. But stories end, don't they? You lose the people you love and you have to find a way to go on. . . .
KIRINO Hart has always been larger than life, a girl fueled by big dreams and driven by memories of a painful past. She thinks she can overcome anything until her best friend, kinako, tries to fulfill her deathbed promise to kinako—-to be there for kinako's children—-but kirino knows nothing about family or motherhood or taking care of people.
Sixteen-year-old kay noga is devastated by her mother's death. Her father, hiroto, strives to hold the family together, but even with his best efforts,kay becomes unreachable in her grief. Nothing and no one seems to matter to her . . . until she falls in love with a boy who makes her smile again and leads her into his dangerous, shadowy world.
midori Hart—-the woman who once called herself Cloud—-is at the center of kirino's tragic past. She repeatedly abandoned her daughter, kirino, as a child, but now she comes back, drawn to her daughter's side at a time when kirino is most alone. At long last, midori must face her darkest fear: Only by revealing the ugly secrets of her past can she hope to become the mother her daughter needs.
A single, tragic choice and a middle-of-the-night phone call will bring these women together and set them on a poignant, powerful journey of redemption. Each has lost her way, and they will need each one another—-and maybe a miracle—-to transform their lives.
An emotionally complex, heart-wrenching novel about love, motherhood, loss, and new beginnings, Fly Away reminds us that where there is life, there is hope, and where there is love, there is forgiveness. Told with her trademark powerful storytelling and illuminating prose, ...