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Author: Olga Tokarczuk
Title: Flights
Translator: Jennifer Croft
Narrator: Julia Whelan
Publication Info: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group, 2018 
Summary/Review:
Flights is a collection of 116 vignettes, some of them exceedingly brief, while others are short stories. They all focus on a theme of travel and are narrated by a nameless woman who practices an old Orthodox Christian belief of constant movement to avoid evil. There’s a lot of variety in the vignettes ranging from contemporary stories to historical fiction. In addition to the theme of travel, with a focus on travel psychology, there is also a reoccurrence of the theme of anatomy and dissection. This is a weird and wonderful book, although I did struggle mightily to keep up with the fragmentary narrative.
Recommended books:
- In Transit by Brigid Brophy
- Severance: Stories by Robert Olen Butler
- Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunder
Rating: ***
Panorama of the Mountains 