Though Isadora fears flying (in all possible senses of the word), she forces herself to keep traveling, to risk her marriage and her life in pursuit of her own brand of liberation. How she finds it and loses her fear is what Fear of Flying is all about. Henry Miller, another great novelist, said of it..."It is rare these days to come upon a book written by a woman which is so refreshing, so gay an sad at the same time, and so full of wisdom about the eternal man-woman problem"