Unlearning to Fly by Jennifer Brice

“Unlearning to Fly, a memoir in essays, doesn’t order Brice’s memories so much as allow forces of wind and weather to reveal them. . . . The reader sees in Brice’s stories her family’s attempts at an ordinary life in terrain that would just as soon ‘buck us off its back.’”—Marjorie Gellhorn Sa’adah, Los Angeles Times Book Review

“There is a refreshing humility implicit in the way Brice has constructed her memoir; it’s a structure that acknowledges the overall sweep of her life is not unusual . . . but that its particulars are distinctive enough to be of interest to others.  And the particulars of Brice’s life are riveting. . . . Brice’s approach in Unlearning to Fly pairs reticence with honesty. . . . Because Brice hasn’t bared all, the reader finishes Unlearning to Fly eager to hear more of her stories.  And in a life as eventful as Jennifer Brice’s, there’s sure to be more to tell.”—Jenny Shank, NewWest.net

“Like a pilot photographing terrain for a map, [Brice] captures her family . . . and friends in a broad and clear vision. . . . Indeed, every person who graces the pages of her narrative is writ generously, fairly and kindly, with a fascination that rekindles our own sense of wonder at the lives we think we know most intimately— those of our parents, close friends, co-workers, but also the collective lives of our homes and our environment.”—Nina Murray, Lincoln Journal Star