Unlearning to Fly: Navigating the Turbulence and Bliss of Growing Up in the Sky, A Memoir

A young boy will fly. Despite his disqualifying impairment and his father's whipsawing encouragement and destructions. Despite his father's addictions to religion and "the family burning flames of alcohol," Russ Roberts holds tight to the dream of being an airline pilot. From Alaska to Virginia and on to Greenland, Iceland, and Europe, airplanes were the golden thread that stitched together an otherwise turbulent start to life. "Unlearning to Fly" illustrates his need to find his own way. To learn to fly his mus "unlearn" his parents' religious and lifestyle teachings. Beyond that, "Unlearning to Fly" takes you to the sky and tells of the unbridled joy of achieving goals. "It was thrilling... and made me want to fly." -Joanne Rideout"Ernest K. Gann's 'Fate is the Hunter' meets Tara Westover's 'Educated.'" - John L.