![]() ![]() When the United States enters World War II, Marian joins the Women’s Air Force Service Pilots (WASP) program, and helps taxi planes from one destination to another. She wants to use her flight skills, and eventually learns to be a bush pilot in Alaska under dangerous weather conditions. Once Marian learns to be a pilot, she refuses to conform to the expected roles of wife and mother. ![]() Shipstead’s spunky heroine will do anything to achieve her dream, from driving illegal moonshine to raise money for lessons, to marrying a man she doesn’t really love to get access to an airplane. It coincidentally happens on the same day Charles Lindbergh makes his historic flight across the Atlantic. Marian Graves knows as a teenager that she must fly airplanes after she sees a barnstormer land in her small Montana town in 1927. This sweeping saga of Marian’s life takes readers to Alaska, Hawaii, England and the Arctic. ![]() In Maggie Shipstead’s glorious new novel, The Great Circle, I experienced what it was like to be a pilot in the early, glory days when aviation was new and sometimes dangerous. The beauty of books is that you can live vicariously through their daring characters. It’s amazing I’m the daughter of a man who trained pilots how to fly in World War II. I marvel at people who do scary things I never dream of doing. ![]()
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