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In Hovering Flight

af Joyce Hinnefeld

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At 34, Scarlet Kavanagh has the kind of homecoming no child wishes, a visit back to family and dear friends for the gentle passing of her mother, Addie, a famous bird artist and an even more infamous environmental activist. Though Addie and her husband, ornithologist Tom Kavanagh, have made their life in southeastern Pennsylvania, Addie has chosen to die at the New Jersey home of her dearest friend, Cora. This is because the Kavanagh’s ramshackle cottage is filled with too much history and because, in the last ten years or so, and for reasons that are not entirely clear, even bird song has seemed to make Addie angry, or sad, or both. Now, in their final moments together, Scarlet hopes to put to rest the last tensions that have marked their relationship. Through tender conversations with Cora and Lou, another of Addie’s dear friends, Scarlet slowly comes to peace with her mother’s complicated life. But can she do the same with her own? Scarlet has carried a secret into these foggy days - a secret for Addie, one that involves Cora, too.… (mere)
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Nice to take a romp through the counties of my home state and where I grew up. ( )
  MatthewHittinger | Jan 1, 2023 |
I just loved this novel, of layers, relationships, loves, death, nature, art and the ways a human evolves over the course of a lifetime. I feel the need to confess I am an artist, naturalist and writer (botanical though, not birds so much, yet!) and adore, and seek out, fiction with any of those themes. I am not quick to give any book five stars, but this was just "everything" for me. I do think a reader's engagement with this novel will depend a lot on how one likes and/or relates the characters, but I felt each one was a piece or two of someone I know. The story is very simple, and a love story really, between burgeoning bird artist Addie, who in 1956, takes the bird science class of Tom, a local orinithologist (and the "hottie" professor of the hour). Their relationships develops and then we are granted glimpses of that, along with the people around them, mostly their daughter, Scarlet (a poet and independent soul) and Tom/Addie's college friends, Cora, Lou and their families. This novel is deceptively simple, just folks talking about passions, loss of those passions, desires, how they love and that divisive elephant in every family's room: politics (especially the clash - habitat/eco- vs. progress/development). In some ways, this book reminded me in scope of "Freedom" by Jonathan Franzen, yet it is softer and more accessible. Hinnefeld's writing is just beautiful, stunning in spots and thoughtful. I have read many novels on birds and nature, but something about THIS one, really sparked my love of birds, their habitats and how they are this, I don't know, assumed part of our lives - yet we rarely give them the focus they deserve. As reader, it was a wistful experience, I felt almost a sense of longing, but also one of great learning, sending me off on tangents of birding, drawing, an artist I did not know but now love, Kathe Killwitz; and also, discoveries about myself and where I would like to take my writing, art and thoughts. I just highly recommend this one, to anyone who loves the topics it covers and at the end of the day, is a sucker for a good love story. Don't expect neat bows to end this package of lives, it is too real for that, but if you pick out the veins of gold (and like the characters), I think you will love it. ( )
1 stem CarolynSchroeder | Jul 8, 2012 |
My grandparents had lots of bird feeders outside their house when I was small. My grandmother has always loved birds, waiting to see the regulars at the bird feeders. I never paid much attention to birds though unless I was at their house. But as I've gotten older, birds have become more intriguing to me with their combination of delicacy and strength, their freedom, and the sweetness of their song. I now turn my head to see if I can spot the bird I hear and although I don't know enough to identify any but the most common birds, I stop to watch them flying by. I envy people who can identify them and those who can capture their essence in images and words. Joyce Hinnefeld has captured the beauty and intricacies of birds and the natural world they live in in her poetic and beautiful debut novel In Hovering Flight.

Scarlet Kavanaugh has come home because her mother, Addie, a famous bird artist is dying. Actually, she hasn't gone home to Pennsylvania, she's gone to Addie's best friend Cora's house in New Jersey since that is where Addie has chosen to die, unwilling to be surrounded by so many haunting memories as she passes on. As Scarlet, named for the scarlet tanager, faces the loss of her mother, she will come to understand Addie better than she ever has before and will mourn the extinguishing of the unique fire that was Addie Sturmer Kavanaugh, artist, environmentalist, activist. She will also have to come to a decision about whether to honor Addie's final wish to be buried illegally on a ridge where she claims to have seen a bird only ever seen before by John James Audubon.

Although opening with the end of Addie's life, the novel looks backwards, telling the tale of Addie and Tom's love and marriage, of Addie's long friendships with college friends Cora and Lou, of her increasingly political art and environmental activism, and of her distracted mothering of Scarlet. Tom Kavanaugh is an ornithologist and professor at a small school in rural Pennsylvania whose classes are wildly popular. When Addie and her friends sign up for his class, he is as immediately captured by Addie as she is by him. They spend time in the field together, looking for and naming birds, as their relationship with each other grows and takes flight. They start their life together wrapped in the beauty of the natural world, collaborating on Tom's classic book: he wrote and she illustrated.

As Addie's art evolves over time beyond the bounds of book pages so too do her political opinions evolve, leading her deep into environmental activism in hopes of saving the habitat around the college and her home. As she becomes more engaged in the fight for a better world starting in her own backyard, she becomes more distant as a mother and a wife. And this strained distance is what Scarlet remembers most from her childhood relationship with her mother, the sense that there was something bigger and more important than their mother/daughter bond. Addie lived a complex life filled with great passions and her husband and best friends do their best to share all they can with Scarlet about the amazing and driven woman that was her mother so that she will carry that knowledge into the future and in her own life.

The writing here is gorgeous and subtle with the weaving of the natural world and birds throughout the narrative of Addie's life. There's meaning and wonder packed into the ephemeral here and the idea that the attempt, even if defeated, is the first step to something better and greater. The deep and abiding love between Addie and Tom is beautifully rendered as is the long and important friendship between Addie, Cora, and Lou. The inclusion of Addie's field journals allow Hinnefeld to seamlessly incorporate Addie's point of view and motivations. This is a phenomenal and compassionate look at the dynamics of relationship, both between people themselves and between people and the creatures with whom we share our world. It addresses responsibility and stewardship and reminds us all to take the time to look at our loved ones and the spaces around us and to appreciate them. For all of time is brief but if we are lucky, our touch extends beyond us. ( )
  whitreidtan | Jun 22, 2012 |
A delightful story of relationships with families and friends around the love and passion for birds and the environment. ( )
  lberriman | Mar 5, 2011 |
This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.
In Hovering Flight is a moving tale of a young woman coming to grips with the legacy of her extrinsic artist-mother who introduced her to passion for birds and living beyond reality. The naturalist themes are innovative and engaging. A good read.
  lavieboheme | Feb 7, 2011 |
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Whatever it was I lost, whatever I wept for
Was a wild, gentle thing, the small dark eyes
Loving me in secret.
It is here. At a touch of my hand,
The air fills with delicate creatures
From the other world.
-- James Wright (from "Milkweed")

Occasionally my parents themselves said to me, "There are also cheery things in life. Why do you only show the dark side?" That I could not answer. It held no charm for me.
-- Käthe Killwitz
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At 34, Scarlet Kavanagh has the kind of homecoming no child wishes, a visit back to family and dear friends for the gentle passing of her mother, Addie, a famous bird artist and an even more infamous environmental activist. Though Addie and her husband, ornithologist Tom Kavanagh, have made their life in southeastern Pennsylvania, Addie has chosen to die at the New Jersey home of her dearest friend, Cora. This is because the Kavanagh’s ramshackle cottage is filled with too much history and because, in the last ten years or so, and for reasons that are not entirely clear, even bird song has seemed to make Addie angry, or sad, or both. Now, in their final moments together, Scarlet hopes to put to rest the last tensions that have marked their relationship. Through tender conversations with Cora and Lou, another of Addie’s dear friends, Scarlet slowly comes to peace with her mother’s complicated life. But can she do the same with her own? Scarlet has carried a secret into these foggy days - a secret for Addie, one that involves Cora, too.

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