Review of \u3ci\u3e Flight Dreams: A Life in the Midwestern Landscape\u3c/i\u3e, by Lisa Knopp.

Lisa Knopp\u27s story will be encouragingly familiar to those who struggle to find meaning in the muddle of family, education, mistakes, insights, and loves we encounter growing up. Flight Dreams is part of Singular Lives, the Iowa Series in North American Autobiography, whose editor asserts in a foreword that Knopp\u27s Way parallels ancient Oriental definitions of the Tao and its three parallel paths. The book proceeds through the writer\u27s childhood, through various work and religious experiences (including Transcendental Meditation and augury), and finally to her writing about nature and her interpretation of her past. Its three major sections show internal unity, but were clearly written at varying times and for assorted purposes