The Power of Flight
It doesn't matter if you're Sugar Ray or R. Kelly—everyone wants to fly. And while, yes, on one level this is because a bird's-eye view seems pretty cool, we're talking about flight metaphoricall...
The Magic Words
Without Toby's magic words, the people would never remember how to fly. Abracadabra just wouldn't have worked.In a sense, these magic words represent the cultures erased by slavery. After their ens...
The People Who Can't Fly
We hear a lot about flying people in this story—obviously—and while that's well and good, we think the people who can't fly deserve a little attention, too. After all, they're the ones who repr...