Fly Away: The Emotional Sequel to the Netflix Series Firefly Lane

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Cloud] was the kind of person she was and how Tully and Marah would survive without Kate,” Kristin Hannah told Book Reporter. In the hospital clinging to life, Tully faces her past and her pain, visits her dead friend, and decides whether or not life is worth living.

Yanagihara ( The People in the Trees, 2013) takes the still-bold leap of writing about characters who don’t share her background; in addition to being male, JB is African-American, Malcolm has a black father and white mother, Willem is white, and “Jude’s race was undetermined”—deserted at birth, he was raised in a monastery and had an unspeakably traumatic childhood that’s revealed slowly over the course of the book. Kristin Hannah’s books although novels and fiction are REAL, I love the reality based stories she tells. Marah Ryan – Johnny and Katie’s daughter who tried their patience from the day she was born; now, at nineteen years old, she is a college dropout who is struggling with depression, dating someone who is all wrong for her, completely withdrawn from her family, and barely managing to eat and live; like her father, she knows failure and regret and feels responsible for Tully’s accident; deep down though, she is still Johnny and Katie’s little girl who needs help… and forgiveness.Much of the Netflix series Firefly Lane takes cues from the book version—with a few key differences.

Now Kate has died of cancer, and Tully, whose once-stellar TV talk show career is in free fall, is wracked with guilt over her failure to be there for Kate until her very last days.The only likable character was Dorothy and her story was just thrown in so late…the other main characters were annoying! It was too sad, there was too much depression, and drugs, and cutting, and anxiety and it was just too much. She spends most of the book hovering between life and death, which is what brings together Cloud, Tully’s mother, and Marah, Tully’s goddaughter. I knew I didn't really want to watch it unfold and that I should avert my gaze, but I just couldn't do it.

In her life, she had been the glue that held them all together; without her, there was no way I could revisit her world. Based off of Kristin Hannah’s best-selling book of the same name, fans of the story know that the streaming giant’s adaptation differs from the novel significantly. Still love the way the story spans over 40 years and how we got to see all the events from different point of views. She repeatedly abandoned her daughter, Tully, as a child, but now she comes back, drawn to her daughter’s side at a time when Tully is most alone.Tully’s mother, Dorothy Hart, is an unstable woman who abandoned her child too many times in the past and ultimately broke her heart. Ericksen narrates in a soothing voice as several characters share their points of view of the story. It wasn’t my favorite book in the world, but I was invested enough that I got the sequel, Fly Away, out of the library and read it in May. This book does show each of the characters that we may have loved from the first book in a very negative light. Fans of Firefly Lane may want to pick up this book to revisit favorite characters, but just like Firefly Lane, be prepared for heartbreaking tale that requires many tissues.