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Overview

In the lush literary tradition of such acclaimed Southern writers as Flannery O'Connor and Katherine Anne Porter comes an extraordinary tale of one woman's search to uncover a past full of haunting family secrets.

Thirty-one-year-old Ellie Moon intends to use the summer of 1967 to regroup after her recent divorce. When her estranged father, Tiny, unexpectedly shows up at her Missouri home and asks her to go with him to New Orleans, Ellie seizes the chance to get away-and to maybe understand why her father abandoned his young family twenty years ago.

Father and daughter follow the Mississippi River flyway from St. Louis to the Big Easy, dodging a crazed Kentucky sheriff hell-bent on catching Tiny and running into an eccentric cast of colorful characters. In the midst of late-night poker games, eating contests, and a near-drowning in the Mississippi River, Ellie's proximity to her father triggers blurred recollections of being dirty, of washing her hands again and again but never feeling clean. And when the images snap into focus, Ellie remembers the dark secrets she hid from herself since childhood.

A compelling story told by natural storyteller. Author, Nel Rand, takes the reader on a gripping, haunting, and at times painfully rich voyage of self discovery in MISSISSIPPI FLYWAY. She peopled her story with characters that leap off the page and her prose has an opulent nuance that places the readers firmly in the scenes. Her evocative descriptive passages are excellent and serve to set the stage. This complex and emotional novel is beautifully published; with an eye-catching cover photograph and appealing covers. Rand's deft characterization, gift for natural dialogue and compelling storyline will linger with the reader long after the final page. MISSISSIPPI FLYWAY is a tremendous story from a talented new comer."
-Judge's comment from Writer's Digest, 15th Annual International Self-Published Book Awards

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781583482841
  • Publisher: iUniverse, Incorporated
  • Publication date: 10/22/2007
  • Pages: 288
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 0.65 (d)

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 5, 2007

    Mississippi Flyway Soars

    Nel Rand's soaring prose transports the reader over time and space like the birds of her Mississippi Flyway. Her richly imagined characters--Ellie Moon, the brave protagonist who needs to confront her past, Tiny Moon, her vile-but-lovable father, and the despicable Sheriff Dover, one of the more evil antagonists in recent memory--crawl up inside you and latch on. With a voice that stirs echoes of the river itself, Rand weaves a flowing tale of hope, self-discovery, and forgiveness. This is one 'road trip' you can't afford to miss.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 25, 2006

    Reaffirms the power of the soul's desire to heal.

    Mississippi Flyway is both a story of one woman choosing the pain of remembering what as a child she could only lock behind closed doors, and is also Everywoman's courageous story of choosing to face her demons rather than remain a victim of them.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 13, 2006

    A musts read

    Reviewer: Elizabeth Bunker (Concord, Massachusetts) - See all my reviews This is a book all young women should read - and reflect upon. Since I like journeys to anywhere -but especially into the radical questions about family, growing up female, what is a father, what is my place in this crazy creation, and what is it that binds us to the past, I really could chew on this book. I could chew and still feel the mystery which eludes language at the heart of its at once mythic and sensual imagery. The author writes with care and a kind of visionary ease- as if this is her home and her family with all the contraditions that entails. She let's the language feel its way into her heroine's heart-the darkness that has kept her bound up and secretive and only half alive. For anyone who has ever felt a disconnect with herself or with her past, this is a necessary book. I also lilke this book because it suits my love of the south since it takes place there, in that backwater country which is it's own world. what is it about? The heroine chooses to make a journey with her once chronically abusive father. I say no more except this - READTHIS BOOK!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 17, 2006

    Don't Miss This Book

    Mississippi Flyway is a captivating story that keeps the reader engaged and wanting more to the very end. Journey with recently divorced Ellie Moon and her estranged father down the Mississippi River. Along the way you will smell the fragrances, see the sights and feel the sensations as Ms. Rand skillfully brings Ellie's world alive for you. Meet many colorful characters and appreciate how their life experiences have contributed to who they have become. Struggle with Ellie as she discovers she does not have to be held captive by her past. Mississippi Flyway will leave you hoping Ms. Rand will someday continue the story for us.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 12, 2006

    Good summer read

    This book immursed me in the heat and odors of summer in the deep south of the 1960's. Well written story of an estranged father/daughter rediscovering each other while learning a new appreciation for one anothers eccentricities. I learned interesting tidbits about race and gender relations as they were during that rapidly changing time of the 60's. Enjoyable read.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 27, 2006

    Delight to read: Characters make you smile

    This is a fun story with never a dull moment as the characters move down the road, only a jump ahead of the sheriff.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 24, 2006

    This is a page turner!

    Mississippi Flyway is rich in characters who are from a part of the country many of us are not familiar with. Ms. Rand has the ability to make you feel like you are standing on the sidelines watching the plot thicken. You try to understand the reason's for the unrest that Tiny has and why Ellie took the trip with her estranged father. Each character in the travels of these two are important. I constantly wondered how she could make them so real unless she knew these people intimately, which she does as the author. But they seem so real! The progression of Tiny and Ellie's journey keeps you wondering what will happen next. I am still wondering what happened to Tiny after the end of the book. It is wonderful to find an author who has started out with a successful book right from the start. I look forward to her next one which I understand is in the works. Keep writing Ms Rand.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 22, 2006

    Page turner with DEEP heart and rediscovery of Southern roots

    This is an amazing story of the rediscovery of a young woman's own deepest truths through reconnecting with a long absent father. You get to see through her eyes and thoughts her steps along the path of remembering to a deeper new awareness of who her father really was and is and how she can forgive him - or at least reconcile with him and herself - I felt Nel Rand painted pictures of true insight into the ways of the Deep South which, in many aspects, can be quite a world apart: kind of a Pat Conroy meets Fannie Flagg visit in the old South yet still Nel Rand is her own VERY original writer...you HEAR her voice rising from the pages! Many paragraghs made me stop, re-read and marvel at her unique twists and turns with words! It was wonderful, too, at how better and better it got as the story evolved. I can't wait for Nel Rand's next book to come out!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 1, 2006

    ATTENTION CINEMATOGRAPHERS! THIS ONE IS A HIT!

    Nel Rand has the masterful ability to create suspense through poetic descriptions of the Mississippi basin. And as the story line evolves, we are most entertained by the vigorous and visually exciting life of gamblers and shady characters on the chase and the run. Take note, cinematographers: it already has incredible dialogue.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 2, 2006

    southern writer opens the closed doors

    As a southerner I look for books about the south. It is another country with it's own language, rituals and secrets. What I love also is that she is a REAL writer-this is real literature. this means that her images, symbols, words hit me on many different levels. It made me realize that I had some doors closed in my own psyche...that need to be opened. The fear we all have in dealing with abuse, in dealing with family, is never black and white - it is complex and many layered. She writes as if this is her own story. It is also mine and yours, as we all share life's deepest joys and wounds. I loved it - I loved the language and the call of the wild geese. It is a VERY good read.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 6, 2006

    Home Is Where the Hurt Is

    Mississippi Flyway is a powerful work from first-time novelist Nel Rand. It begins with young Ellie Moon running to Mass, afraid to be sent to Hell for another of her many infractions. Her Catholic Church serves pastries and issues rules, but for Ellie¿s corrosive internal pain, it has nothing to offer. Ellie must find her way to wholeness herself. In her case, that means in the company of her father, the gigantic Tiny Moon, who has previously deserted the family after inflicting the psychic pain Ellie carries with her, affecting everything she does. Like the innocent Huck Finn who rafts down the same river, learning as he goes, Ellie makes her own journey, meeting an assortment of characters¿gamblers, con men, hustlers, a voodoo queen, and the unforgettable psychopathic sheriff who follows them, driven by a pathological need to revenge himself on Tiny when he finds him. As we follow the journey and the river to New Orleans, we are kept in suspense. Will the sheriff exact his revenge before Ellie can find the strength and wisdom to assuage her pain. The river carries many secrets and will divulge them only to those who are deserving. Readers who make and complete this journey with Ellie will find themselves similarly rewarded.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 1, 2006

    book choice of the year.....

    Mississippi Flyway is my book choice of the year. Nel Rand paints a vivid picture with her poetic descriptions of the characters Ellie meets on the strange and adventurous road trip she takes with Tiny, her estranged father. The rich visual texture of the setting is central to the plot of the story. The book is very well written. I give it a big thumbs up!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 12, 2005

    Fly Away Home

    Little Owl is the child-self lost in Ellie Moon's forgotten past. The shadow of this etheral being accompanies Ellie in her journey with her itinerant father who had deserted the family decades ago. Only Owl knows why her daddy left. Only Owl knows why older sister Rose threw herself in the muddy waters of the great Mississippi. Only Owl knows why Momma clipped the child's wings and forbade flight. I was intrigued from the first page, wondering if Ellie's journey along the flyway would end with Owl's death. The voodoo ceremony would either host a murder or a rebirth. What an incredible story!!! A 'must read.'

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