Fly Away Home: A Novel

Sylvie Serfer has spent decades transforming herself into the ideal politician's wife, abandoning her youthful curls and opinions for straightened hair and tailored suits. Now fifty-seven, she maintains her appearance and supports her husband, a senator. Their younger daughter Lizzie, twenty-four and in recovery from addiction, relies on the HALT mantra to manage her life, though trouble frequently finds her. Their older daughter Diana, an emergency room physician, has achieved what Lizzie could not—a husband, a young son, and a perfect home—yet remains trapped in a loveless marriage and finds herself tempted by someone in her workplace. When Richard's extramarital affair becomes public, the three women face intense media scrutiny. Forced to confront their lives in the national spotlight, each must reconsider who she is and who she wants to become. Through heartbreak and humor, the story follows a mother and two daughters who, after years of distance, finally discover how to support one another.