The world is on the cusp of industry. An intrepid pilot builds an airplane from wood and steel. It flies, but he crashes in unexplored land. There he meets the wife and her husband on an important journey of reconciliation. Not far behind is a hunter, tracking them to the very end. Along the way they’re helped by a squirrel and haunted by a terrible ghost. Where their paths converge the pilot must weigh the value of his ambition against the worth of letting it go, must decide how to carry on and what to carry with him. Bravery and forgiveness are the last tools he has.
The Flyer is an illustrated novel about failure, friends, ghosts and adventure. Each page contains a 115-word paragraph paired with a watercolor illustration. The final words of each paragraph are echoed in the first sentence of the next. This subtle repetition binds the pages together in an unbreakable way - unbreakable like the indomitable spirit of exploration and forgiveness that generation after generation has driven people together to rework, revisit, rebuild.
The world is on the cusp of industry. An intrepid pilot builds an airplane from wood and steel. It flies, but he crashes in unexplored land. There he meets the wife and her husband on an important journey of reconciliation. Not far behind is a hunter, tracking them to the very end. Along the way they’re helped by a squirrel and haunted by a terrible ghost. Where their paths converge the pilot must weigh the value of his ambition against the worth of letting it go, must decide how to carry on and what to carry with him. Bravery and forgiveness are the last tools he has.
The Flyer is an illustrated novel about failure, friends, ghosts and adventure. Each page contains a 115-word paragraph paired with a watercolor illustration. The final words of each paragraph are echoed in the first sentence of the next. This subtle repetition binds the pages together in an unbreakable way - unbreakable like the indomitable spirit of exploration and forgiveness that generation after generation has driven people together to rework, revisit, rebuild.