num_pages: 352
description: A visit from his daughter and her fiancé from Oregon prompts Jerry Battle to reassess his life, his family relationships, his professional success, and his disengagement from those around him, as he reflects on his professional success and his love of flying solo, in a novel set in an upper-middle-class suburban Long Island community.
language: English
title: Aloft
titlecomplete: Aloft
genres: Family, Fiction, Asian Literature, Book Club, Contemporary, American, Adult, Literary Fiction, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 2609
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature
category: Adult Fiction, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Long Island Reads
publisher: Riverhead Hardcover