Flight of Passage

Two teenage boys (the ages of my own children, who I'm proud once drove to Anacortes by themselves!) decided to fly across the country in a tiny plane in the summer of '66. That alone is quite a tale (which the newspapers of the day ate up), but in the hands of Rinker Buck, telling the story three decades after he and his brother Kern pulled off the feat, it's simply wonderful, a story of coming of age in a can-do family that joins Moss Hart's Act One as one of my favorite feel-good memoirs. Anyone who enjoyed Buck's latest book, Oregon Trail, about a cross-country trip with a different brother, will likely love this one too, and so will pretty much anyone else.