Growing Wings

The story enters around a number of people, almost all younger, who have wings. None of them are actually capable of flying, at least at first, and there are those whose wings were cut off or otherwise damaged by their parents or other relatives.

They take refuge in a house in the woods where those who still have the ability to fly can try learning how to manage to do that. Some noisy reporters complicate matters, and later two of the people end up lost in the woods and get rescued by a helicopter pilot who is, himself, a cutwing (someone who had their wings cut off at an early age).

There is some historical/mythological references given to winged people, but where did this group come from? Genetic mutation and other possibilities are given, but that's about all the speculation. There is some secret group mentioned that serves to help those with wings, and a couple of the members want to reveal their existence openly to the public.

This is a novel that I simply did not find interesting enough to keep reading a lot of it at any one time. It's sort of interesting, but for some reason I never really ended up caring about the characters that much. Maybe it's meant as some kind of metaphor about those who have differences from others that are just as problematic but more realistic; I don't really know. It's just a book I don't feel very strongly about one way or the other.


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