Karen

From one of the finest writers of our time comes this luminous story of a lifelong friendship between two couples, the Morgans and the Langs. With his customary grace and power, Stegner evokes the dense web of feeling and experience that binds these people together: joy and sorrow, fulfillment and frustration, anger and forgiveness, suffering and survival. Crossing to Safety is a storytelling marvel, and a stirring affirmation of life in all its complexity, pain, and wonder.

In the summer of 1959, as Castro clamps down on Cuba and its first wave of exiles flees to the States to wait out what they hope to be his short-lived reign, Emma Gant, fresh out of college, begins her career as a reporter. Her fierce ambition and belief in herself are set against the stories swirling around her, both at the newspaper office and in her downtown Miami hotel, which is filling up with refugees.

Six children have escaped government experiments, and a frightening brush with death. Living out in the world for the first time, they yearn to be reunited with Kit and Frannie, the couple who saved their lives, and to return to the cabin known as the Lake House. But before they can get there, they will face a horrifying evil, for one man has survived the laboratory that bred the flying children, and he is obsessed with reclaiming them for a new round of experiments - with an even more deadly outcome.