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PERMISSION TO FLY tells the true story of boy born into a kind and happy family who grows to realize the executive world his father inhabits may not be his destiny. Thanks to his remarkable mother, Layng is given ""permission to fly"" early on. Armed with optimism, curiosity, creativity, determination and a wry sense of humor, he begins his amazing journey of many painful-but-educational steps and missteps. PERMISSION TO FLY is about love, raising kids, sticking to what matters and paying the price for doing that. It's about recovering from failure and heartbreak, maintaining friendships, and it's about how much help we all need to get anywhere good in the world. Walking Layng's uncharted path beside him, we witness the highest degrees of love, risk, hilarity, tragedy, resiliency and success. We encounter fabulously colorful characters and experiences that propel him towards the freedom and fulfillment he craves. Layng Martine Jr. is a master storyteller. He writes his most American and inspirational of stories with charm, humor, and humanity.

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"""If Layng Martine Jr. was only a prose stylist, he would be outstanding. Add to that a deep core of music, a joyous sense of adventure, and an abiding and healing love for his family, and you have an artist in the truest sense of the word. I loved this book."" ---Anne Rivers Siddons, New York Times bestselling author of Peachtree Road and Colony ""PERMISSION TO FLY is a love letter to the journey of a free life. If you've ever wondered what it looks like to live out your life's dreams, to pursue your passions against the odds, and to love with all you've got, this is the book to grab now. Charming, humorous and inspirational, this is a read that will both enchant and enrich."" ---Patti Callahan Henry, New York Times bestselling author of Becoming Mrs. Lewis Permission to Fly is about a passion for living, victory of the human spirit in the face of adversity, and maybe the best true love story you'll ever read. Warning: this book is addictive and very hard to put down. ---Bobby Braddock, Member of The Country Music Hall of Fame and The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, co-writer of D-I-V-O-R-C-E, and He Stopped Loving Her Today Layng and his wife, Linda, have lived extraordinary lives, partly by their own choices and partly by fates completely out of their control. Permission to Fly is a joy to read as you watch Layng take the lessons he was given as a child and form them into a life worth living. ---Robert Hicks, New York Times bestselling author of The Widow of the South and A Separate Country This is a gorgeous book...intensely funny, poignantly, achingly sad, related by the master storyteller who lived it. You can pick up the book and begin anywhere. What you cannot do is put the book down. ---John S. Beasley ll, Vice-Chancellor, Emeritus, Vanderbilt University and inveterate reader ""Author of a NEW YORK TIMES most-emailed Modern Love column"""

If Layng Martine Jr. was only a prose stylist, he would be outstanding. Add to that a deep core of music, a joyous sense of adventure, and an abiding and healing love for his family, and you have an artist in the truest sense of the word. I loved this book. ---Anne Rivers Siddons, New York Times bestselling author of Peachtree Road and Colony PERMISSION TO FLY is a love letter to the journey of a free life. If you've ever wondered what it looks like to live out your life's dreams, to pursue your passions against the odds, and to love with all you've got, this is the book to grab now. Charming, humorous and inspirational, this is a read that will both enchant and enrich. ---Patti Callahan Henry, New York Times bestselling author of Becoming Mrs. Lewis Permission to Fly is about a passion for living, victory of the human spirit in the face of adversity, and maybe the best true love story you'll ever read. Warning: this book is addictive and very hard to put down. ---Bobby Braddock, Member of The Country Music Hall of Fame and The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, co-writer of D-I-V-O-R-C-E, and He Stopped Loving Her Today Layng and his wife, Linda, have lived extraordinary lives, partly by their own choices and partly by fates completely out of their control. Permission to Fly is a joy to read as you watch Layng take the lessons he was given as a child and form them into a life worth living. ---Robert Hicks, New York Times bestselling author of The Widow of the South and A Separate Country This is a gorgeous book...intensely funny, poignantly, achingly sad, related by the master storyteller who lived it. You can pick up the book and begin anywhere. What you cannot do is put the book down. ---John S. Beasley ll, Vice-Chancellor, Emeritus, Vanderbilt University and inveterate reader Author of a NEW YORK TIMES most-emailed Modern Love column

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LAYNG MARTINE JR. grew up in Fairfield County, Connecticut. He and his wife Linda now live in Nashville, Tennessee where they raised their three grown sons. Layng is a member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame and the author of a NEW YORK TIMES most-emailed Modern Love essay. He was educated at Denison University and Columbia University.

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