Great Circle

Marian and Jamie Graves are raised in Missoula, Montana, by their dissolute uncle after being rescued as newborns from a sinking ocean ship in 1914. Marian begins her lifelong love affair with the flight there, after witnessing a couple of barnstorming pilots traveling through town in beat-up biplanes. She drops out of school at fourteen 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.

Hadley Baxter is cast as Marian in a film about Marian's disappearance in Antarctica a century later. Hadley is ready to remake herself after a romance film trilogy has imprisoned her in the thrall of cult notoriety. She is vibrant, canny, and frustrated with the claustrophobia of Hollywood. Her absorption into Marian's character unfolds thrillingly alongside Marian's own tale, as the destinies of the two women—and their quest for self-determination in widely different geographies and times—collide. Great Circle is a gigantic work of art, epic and dramatic, thoroughly researched and gorgeously delivered, and a big leap forward for the prodigiously brilliant Maggie Shipstead.

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Author: Maggie Shipstead
Link to read: goodreads.com/book/show/54976986-great-circle