OLDER FICTION
Marquardt, Marie

Flight Season

(3) YA Brazilian American TJ is "a surly nurse's aide"; Vivi (who is white) is a grieving, bird-obsessed college student/intern at a Florida hospital. Ángel is their Guatemalan male teen patient suffering from viral cardiomyopathy. In distinct, shifting perspectives that overlap and intersect, the three help one another survive a summer of transition, love, and loss. This stirring, compelling narrative will stay with readers.

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