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Travel back in time, sail across the world—while never leaving your armchair. Join the Online Fiction Book Group where we read and discuss a wide variety of fiction virtually.
Meetings take place via Zoom. Registered participants will be emailed meeting information prior to the event starting.
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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.
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