To say that Jo-Ann Vega has a way with words is clearly an understatement. Moments in Flight is the type of book that holds you hostage until the story ends. And then you want more. It engages the reader by combining an intriguing personal journey which intersects with the historical events of a tremulous time in our country...beautifully chronicles the different and painful stages we all experienced...while coming of age and finding 'our' voice. Vega has, through her prose, captured our imaginations and our hearts!

What makes Vega's memoir stand out is that she intersperses her personal experiences with observations about the momentous national and international events that occurred while she was growing up such as the assassinations of President Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy, the Vietnam War...sexual revolution...race riots...recreational drugs...Vega's diary entries from that time and her poems add to the picture she paints of the country coming of age when she did.