Sparrow migrations
Subtitle: a novel
By: Cari Noga
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 341
ISBN-13: 9781480134430
Subjects: US Airways Flight 1549 Crash Landing, Hudson River, N.Y. and N.J., 2009; Autistic children; US Airways Flight 1549 Crash Landing (Hudson River, New York and New Jersey : 2009) fast (OCoLC)fst01755699; Aircraft accidents; Fiction
Description: "January 15, 2009. Hudson River, New York City. Robby Palmer, a 12-year-old boy with autism, witnesses the 'Miracle on the Hudson' from a sightseeing ferry and becomes obsessed with the birds that caused the plane crash. Passengers Deborah and Christopher are trying to escape their infertility struggle when Flight 1549 plunges them into the icy river. Preacher's wife Brett Stevens has hidden a secret for years. She's aboard the ferry, too, where the eye of a TV camera threatens to expose her. Their lives intersect in Sparrow Migrations, the braided narrative of ordinary people transformed by an extraordinary event and by each other"--Page 4 of cover.