A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK!
*A Most Anticipated Book of 2021 according to O, The Oprah Magazine; Lit Hub; She Reads; Town & Country; Esquire; and Bustle*
The unforgettable story of a daredevil female aviator determined to chart her own course in life, at any cost—Great Circle “soars
and dips with dizzying flair ... an expansive story that covers more
than a century and seems to encapsulate the whole wide world” (Boston Globe).
“A masterpiece . . . One of the best books I’ve ever read.”
—J. Courtney Sullivan
After
being rescued as infants from a sinking ocean liner in 1914, Marian and
Jamie Graves are raised by their dissolute uncle in Missoula, Montana.
There--after encountering a pair of barnstorming pilots passing through
town in beat-up biplanes--Marian commences her lifelong love affair with
flight. At fourteen she drops out of school and finds an unexpected and
dangerous patron in a wealthy bootlegger who provides a plane and
subsidizes her lessons, an arrangement that will haunt her for the rest
of her life, even as it allows her to fulfill her destiny:
circumnavigating the globe by flying over the North and South Poles.
A
century later, Hadley Baxter is cast to play Marian in a film that
centers on Marian's disappearance in Antarctica. Vibrant, canny,
disgusted with the claustrophobia of Hollywood, Hadley is eager to
redefine herself after a romantic film franchise has imprisoned her in
the grip of cult celebrity. Her immersion into the character of Marian
unfolds, thrillingly, alongside Marian's own story, as the two women's
fates--and their hunger for self-determination in vastly different
geographies and times--collide. Epic and emotional, meticulously
researched and gloriously told, Great Circle is a monumental work of art, and a tremendous leap forward for the prodigiously gifted Maggie Shipstead.
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