THE NOVEL BY CHRISTOPHER LANEY
A soul-stirring adventure about finding your wings.
“At home in the compelling realms of The Alchemist and Field of Dreams, Laney’s Flying Colors is richly told and impossibly vibrant. The story will stay with you long after the final page is turned.”
John Freeman has spent years building the life he thought he wanted. Then a strange encounter leads him to a grass airfield forgotten by the modern world.
There at Air Haven, the days move at a different pace. An old flight instructor named Kent draws John back to his childhood love of flying, and to the everyday magic he stopped noticing somewhere along the way.
Kent starts with lessons that have nothing to do with airplanes, yet each one lands. He seems to know what John has never said aloud, and Air Haven itself begins to show John things he can’t explain—and Kent won’t.
Over one remarkable summer, John must decide what he’s willing to leave behind—and willing to believe—to make room for the part of himself he thought he’d outgrown. Because summers end, and the life he built is still waiting for him outside Air Haven.
Christopher Laney
Christopher Laney is a novelist, pilot, and lifelong believer that some of our most important moments happen when we stop long enough to question where we’re headed. Chris is drawn to everything flight represents—possibility, perspective, and the courage to leave familiar ground.
Those ideas soar through his fiction, articles, and essays, where he explores the questions we ask, the choices we make, and the moments that can quietly change the course of a life.
“It’s never too late to become the person you’re meant to be.”
—FROM FLYING COLORS
I said out loud that I needed a sign about the novel, then forgot about it. Hours later, a license plate at a stoplight read LRN2FLY.