5/13/2023 0 Comments Book review great circle![]() ![]() ![]() It is against the odds that this novel should get off the ground. She declares: "I wish to measure my life against the dimensions of the planet." Marian observes that her intentions are unachievable, but these may be the worthiest kind. ![]() It seeks to test how infinite space might be compacted into art, the complexities of a life compressed into a legacy. It wants to highlight the forgotten women of flight history. Like its heroines, Great Circle's ambitions have enormous scope. There is Amy Johnson, the first woman to fly solo from London to Australia Elinor Smith, who flew under four New York City bridges on a dare and Jacqueline Cochran, the speed queen who broke the sound barrier.Īmelia Earhart, the most famous aviatrix of all time, is a background presence, viewed with a tinge of resentment for being the only one posterity had room for. This is matched by a sweeping volume of research, glimpsed in detours into the science of navigation the story of a gender-fluid indigenous warrior dubbed Sitting-in-the-Water-Grizzly and the real-life women pilots whose stories speckle the landscape of Marian's. ![]()
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