~ Hardcover

~ Winner of the Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Award for Fiction Book - 2004

Set on the Royal Canadian Air Force station of Centralia during the early sixties (a time of optimism infused with the excitement of the space race but overshadowed by the menace of the Cold War), The Way the Crow Flies is filtered through the rich imagination and quick humour of eight-year-old Madeleine McCarthy and the idealism of her father, career officer Jack.

Breathtaking in its storytelling power, The Way the Crow Flies is a mesmerizing novel that is as masterful and compelling as it is rich while also creating both a loving portrayal and an indictment of an era.  With her unerring eye for the whimsical, the absurd, and the quintessentially human, Ann-Marie MacDonald stunningly evokes the pain, confusion, and humour of childhood in a perilous adult world.