She wrote the memoir while pregnant with her first child, Guy, whom she remarked was “acclimated to plane noise” before he was born; much as she tolerated the “oppressing roar of descending jets" in her Forest Park childhood home.

In April 2011, she gives birth to her first son, Guy, at the South Fulton Medical Center near their East Point home.183 Her uncle was born there in 1963, the first year it opened.

Flight Path concludes with a discussion about Aerotropolis Atlanta, a proposed multi-billion dollar, mixed-use project slated to occupy the site of the former Ford motor plant in Hapeville.

[8] Flight Path has received several accolades since its publication, including an Independent Publisher Book Award for Essay/Creative Non-Fiction in 2018 and a starred review from Booklist.

[9][10] Palmer was awarded the Judy Turner Prize in 2017 at the Decatur Book Festival for her memoir Flight Path: A Search for Roots Beneath the World's Busiest Airport.

[11] In her starred review for Booklist, Colleen Mondor writes that Flight Path is a "sparkling gem" and a "passionate and gorgeously written reminder of why urban planning matters.

"[10] Publishers Weekly praises Palmer as she "makes it easy to root for her and trust her candid insights into questionable policies and current efforts at 'airport urbanism'.

"[12]  Kirkus calls Flight Path a "thoughtful, eclectic account of what infrastructure progress can leave in its wake," and Atlanta Magazine describes the book as "a persuasive memoir that uses personal history to construct a troubling indictment of the airport's relentless expansion.

Since publishing Flight Path, she has been partnering with municipalities on the South Side of Atlanta to advocate on behalf of the people and places displaced by the airport.