
Featuring Poetry By Houston’s 5th Poet Laureate,
Outspoken Bean






Awards for PAPER AIRPLANES
- 2022 IPPY Awards Winner in Best First Book (Bronze, Fiction)
- 2022 Eric Hoffer Book Awards Winner in General Fiction
- 2022 Eric Hoffer First Horizon Book Awards Winner
- 2022 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards Finalist in Fiction: General
- 2022 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards Finalist in Best New Voice: Fiction
- 2022 National Indie Excellence Awards Finalist
- 2021 American Fiction Awards Finalist in Literary Fiction

Featuring Poetry By Houston’s 5th Poet Laureate,
Outspoken Bean





Awards for PAPER AIRPLANES
- 2022 IPPY Awards Bronze Winner in Best First Book (Fiction)
- 2022 Eric Hoffer Book Awards Winner in General Fiction
- 2022 Eric Hoffer First Horizon Book Awards Winner
- 2022 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards Finalist in Fiction: General
- 2022 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards Finalist in Best New Voice: Fiction
- 2021 American Fiction Awards Finalist in Literary Fiction

Featuring Poetry By Houston’s 5th Poet Laureate,
Outspoken Bean





Awards for PAPER AIRPLANES
- 2022 IPPY Awards Bronze Winner in Best First Book (Fiction)
- 2022 Eric Hoffer Book Awards Winner in General Fiction
- 2022 Eric Hoffer First Horizon Book Awards Winner
- 2022 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards Finalist in Fiction: General
- 2022 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards Finalist in Best New Voice: Fiction
- 2021 American Fiction Awards Finalist in Literary Fiction
Praise for Paper Airplanes
“… a love story about a marriage that’s imperfect but everlasting, and about the guilt that comes when we survive and must keep on living.”
—KIRKUS REVIEWS
“On the twentieth anniversary of the World Trade towers attack comes an unflinching novel that explores the aftermath of the tragedy. Forney, whose own husband survived 9/11, takes us into the heart and mind of a widow whose husband jumped from a tower to escape the terrifying fires. Her life abruptly broken, Erin journeys through hell and back in this fictional account of a loved one left behind. An elegantly written tale that engages a gamut of emotions, this is a powerful debut by a gifted writer.”
—CHRIS CANDER, USA Today best-selling author of The Weight of a Piano
“The world changed irreparably in 2001, but most of us only knew the events from a distance. Forney takes us into the searing rupture of that day — and the unstable life that followed — with fortitude and insight, grace and eloquence, reckoning and ultimately peace. A tour de force.”
– DAVID EAGLEMAN, author of Sum and Livewired
“This haunting novel captivated me from the beginning. Forney pulled me in with her gorgeous prose and a heroine who made my heart ache. I rarely cry when I read, but Paper Airplanes had me sobbing. This is the kind of book that only comes around once in a lifetime.”
—LAURA HEFFERNAN, internationally best-selling author of Finding Tranquility and Anna’s Guide to Getting Even