4.5
Flying in Place
By Susan PalwickPublisher Description
Once in a while, a first novel arrives like a bolt of lightning, commanding attention with an explosion of power, grace, and light. Flying in Place is such a book. As unflinching as The Lovely Bones, as startling as Beloved, it is a work to bear witness--with bravery and compassion--for the experience of millions of readers and their loved ones.
Emma is twelve, a perfectly normal girl, in a perfectly normal home. With a perfectly normal father...who comes into her bedroom every night in the hours before dawn. Emma will do anything to escape. From the visits. From the bodies. From the breathing. Even go walking on the ceiling--which is where Emma meets Ginny, the sister who died before she was born. Ginny, who knows things. Ginny, who can fly....
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Reshida
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“I honestly finished the entire book in one sitting. I had not known a thing about the story before opening it and it surely took me by surprise. One thing about this book I absolutely can not get over is the characters. Each and every mentioned character had an important role to play and they played it well. I did find it heavily triggering for anyone who experienced any form of molestation or sexual abuse or has ever been gaslighted into believing what ever was happening to them, never was. Nevertheless, the writing of the story and how Susan chose to lead the story was magnificent.
As a debut, this is an impressive book and no matter the sadness, anger, restlessness you may feel while reading it, no one can deny the truth behind the story. Just thinking about how there are young women and girls who have to go through something like this makes me sick to the stomach. And as tough as it may been to sit through reading about the pain Emma, Ginny, their mother went through, I would certainly recommend this book to everyone.”
Teresa
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Fauziyyah Arimi
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“Sebenarnya, saya membaca buku ini di bulan Agustus lalu. Saya ingat membaca novel ini sekali duduk, sebelum tidur. Buku ini tipikal buku yang akan membuatmu susah bernapas. Saya ingat, setelah menyelesaikannya, saya mengupdate review singkat di Goodreads dan berkata seperti ini:
When we’re outsider we thought, upon hearing the child sexual abuse crime, that it was horrible. but placing our self as insider, which i thought was the book’s intention, it feels terrifying.
Lalu kenapa kalau novel ini berkesan saya malah tidak langsung mereviewnya? Itulah penyakit saya (-,-)a. Saya punya kebiasaan untuk mengambil jarak dari kisah yang baru selesai saya baca. Alhasil, kadang (dan kebanyakan) kisah itu terlewatkan untuk saya review. Nah, beberapa minggu ini saya sedang mengikuti sebuah TV series berjudul http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3877200/?ref_=nv_sr_1 . TV series yang berkisah tentang penculikan seorang anak kecil bernama Oliver Hughes yang disinyalir berkaitan dengan child trafficking. Dalam episode-episode yang plotnya semakin escalating belakangan ini, muncul Ian Garrett dan kebenaran yang terkuak tentang ia yang seorang pedophile dan salah satu korbannya adalah anak perempuannya sendiri! Ian Garrett mengingatkan saya pada novel ini. Tepatnya pada karakter Stewart Gray.
Its HORRIBLE. Rasanya mau nangis aja kalo baca kisah korban pedofilia. Kasihan dengan mereka yang mendapatkan perlakuan buruk itu. Sekaligus khawatir dengan trauma yang nanti akan membentuk mentalnya di masa depan. Biasanya malah korban pedofilia ini, saat besar akan menjadi pelaku child sexual abuse. Dan kalau begitu, penyakit pedophilia menjadi siklus yang tak putus. Memang tak semuanya tapi itu sangat mengkhawatirkan, kan? Sangat.
“I’m dead! That’s what’s wrong with me! Dead people fly, Emma! I brought you here so I could talk to you, and all you want to do is pretend you’re dead!”
Balik ke kisah Emma. Unsur fantasi yakni kemunculan hantu Ginny, lama-lama men-trigger Emma untuk bertindak. Thats a good thing for a victim like Emma. She should no longer shut up herself. Because most victim intended to shut the problem to themselves. Apalagi di kasus Emma ini, setiap kali Ayahnya ‘melukainya’, sang Ayah berdalih kalau itu karena ia mencintai Emma. Gimana ga geregetan coba sama sang Ayah yang bejat begitu! :evil:
Stewart Gray, sang ayah, ngga keliatan deh kalo dia memiliki penyakit pedofilia. Dia adalah seorang dokter bedah terkenal. Kehidupan rumah tangganya juga lempeng-lempeng aja. Ngga ada yang tau kalau di rumahnya Emma disakiti. Pun sang Ibu! Ini juga yang bikin geregetan. How could a mom be so blind about her own daughter. Di novel ini, sang Ibu terlalu sibuk dengan kesedihannya akan kematian Ginny (dan masih). Satu-satunya yang memegang rahasia Dr. Gray adalah sang bibi, Aunt Donna. Itu pun, dengan liciknya, Dr. Gray berhasil memanipulasi Pam (ibu Emma) dengan kebencian hingga keduanya berpisah -tak lagi berkomunikasi.
“I could say the same about you, but this conversation would degenerate into something entirely unprofessional. Pam, I like Emma. She’s a good kid. And something pretty damn serious is eating at her, and if you can’t see that, you’ve got your head in tghe sand!”
Tapi, benarkah semuanya ‘buta’ akan kejanggalan dalam diam dan tertutupnya Emma? You and I will hope, not all people blind of what goes wrong with Emma. We, reader, would hope for someone to rescue Emma. But we’ll see. you need to read the whole story.
“I think,” Myrna said slowly after a while, “that most of us never really treasure being alive. We take it for granted. I think Ginny wanted you to understand how precious it is.””
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