Download or read book Flight of the Blackbird written by Faye McDonald Smith and published by Scribner Book Company. This book was released on 1996 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The difficult adjustment of an upper-middle class, black couple to a fall in their standard of living after their business collapses. He beats her, she takes off for an affair, but the marriage survives.