How Clarissa Burden Learned to Fly, (Paperback)

from wcath

How Clarissa Burden Learned to Fly takes place in Florida on the summer solstice -- the longest day of the year. Clarissa, a bestselling author, is at a crossroads. Both her writing and her marriage are at a standstill and something has to give. What happens in the span of one long day will chang...

from landa102

I fouind this book a little hard to get into and the pace was a little slower than some of her other books but I love her writing style and her settings. i always feel reading her books a deep sense of her southern roots and I was love her characters and find a certain kinship and fondness with t...

from nicole

Clarissa's story takes place in a 24 hour period. It wasn't until I had nearly finished the book that I realized how brilliantly Connie May Fowler had paced it. At the beginning, things move slowly because Clarissa is slowly going about her day (and fuming about her husband). As Clarissa gets clo...

from whitreidtan

I stumbled across Connie May Fowler's works many years ago and have been enjoying her unusual writing ever since. With her trademarked meandering writing style, imitating and reflecting the heat shimmering over her fictional creation of Hope, Florida, Fowler has created the story of a woman beate...

from dmcco01

I liked "How Clarissa Burden Learned to Fly." Halfway through I thought I was going to LOVE it. Connie May Fowler had caught me up in Clarissa's struggle and the mysteries and specters surrounding her. And then it seemed the last half of the novel suddenly rushed toward a too easy ending. It's a ...