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Reviewed by Janelle Fila for Readers' Favorite
The Flying Kite by Victor A. Davis is a story within a story. Parts of this story were inspired by true events. The author read a National Geographic magazine article about a man who planned to walk south from the South American Andes to the tip of Tierra del Fuego. On his trip, the man's wife dies in an accident. But in the interview, the man claims he will continue his journey. Now enters the author's imagination as the man, Guillermo Faulkner, shows up 12 years later in Patagonia. He quickly becomes an urban legend with no one left alive to verify if he really hiked the distance as claimed. Is he even the correct man? In an interesting twist, the story of Guillermo Faulkner is told as a bar story by an American man who claims the urban legend is true. Therefore the ultimate question for the reader is whether or not this American character can be trusted as a reliable narrator.
I loved the use of a story within a story. I think other readers will be equally impressed with this story technique. I also liked the use of the question of the narrator's reliability. So often stories are told and readers believe what the narrator states 100 percent. So I think it was very refreshing to have a story where you weren't 100 percent sure if it was true or a legend. I think other readers will appreciate having to choose what they believe is truth and fiction within this fact based short story.
