Flight Dreams

In Flight Dreams, Lisa Knopp captures the midwestern experience—what it means to grow up in a Mississippi River town and to wonder how it would feel to soar like one of the birds overhead. Like an eagle or hawk, she finds ways to 'move beyond what seems oppressive and dull' and flies in the face of convention—working her way through a Ph.D. program, becoming a single mother, entering into a multiracial marriage, and launching a writing career. Knopp lands on some of the key social and political issues for women in the latter half of the twentieth century."" - Mary Swander

""A book with the subtitle 'A Life in the Midwestern Landscape' may sound impossibly placid, but Lisa Knopp writes dramatically about the seemingly staid terrains of Nebraska and southern Illinois—and her place in them as a writer and professor, and astute observer of nature and a single mother of two children, one of whom is biracial. Throughout, Knopp rarely strikes a confessional but offers a textured, sometimes heart-rendering contemplation."" - Carolyn Alessio, Chicago Tribune