Flight

This memoir centers on a daughter's search for her father, a Lithuanian aviation pioneer who was captured by the enemy during World War II and disappeared in a Soviet prison. The author, a longtime journalist, follows four generations of a family caught up in the tumultuous history of Eastern Europe through both World Wars, into exile, resettlement in the United States, and beyond, through the Singing Revolution that liberated one small defiant country on the Baltic Sea from the grip of the USSR. The author paints vivid details of everyday life within the grand sweep of history. The reader will hear echoes in our own lives and times.