The novel follows two main characters whose lives are connected by a shared family history and a mythical land called Isidora, where nothing is ever forgotten.Â
Seth Waller: A 15-year-old "science nerd" from Austin, Texas, who begins investigating his mother’s early-onset Alzheimer’s. His quest leads him to uncover surprising truths about his family's past.
Abel Haggard: An elderly, reclusive hunchback living on a family farm outside Dallas. He reflects on his lost love, Mae, and holds the key to the family's secrets.
Flying Sideways tells the thrilling but heartfelt story of how a misfit boy with nothing but a dream breaks the rules, beats the odds, and learns to bet on himself. Against a vibrant global backdrop that touches down everywhere from New York City to Mongolia to Madagascar, we follow Fred as he deserts the French Army (in roller skates), talks his way into flight school, becomes chief pilot for the world's greatest rally car and adventures races, gets mixed up with DEA in Miami, dodges death (many times), and―perhaps most improbably―falls in love.
