![]() She also lost her parents and was raised by an uncle. Years later, in 2014, if you go by chronology, we meet Hadley, a young actress whose life parallels Marian’s. (In fact, there are a lot of reluctant parents in this book and perhaps an argument for the individualism promoted by free-range parenting.) When Addison was released he took one look at the young twins and walked away, unable to believe that he would be a good father. ![]() ![]() The children grew up under the neglectful care of their painter uncle, Wallace Graves, addicted to gambling and drinking. Their father was sent to Sing Sing prison for disobeying the code of captains at sea in order to save the twin infants. Marian and Jamie Graves lost their abused and understandably reluctant mother as infants when the ship their father, Addison Graves, was captaining exploded and sank. In the midst of her prose story she will recite a timely fact about a milestone accomplished by a pilot. Women who flew were a key target of her studies. ![]() The only part of her story that is true is the history bits, but Shipstead did her due diligence and she knows the flight records achieved with regularity after Kitty Hawk. ![]() It’s a family saga, a historical saga, a saga of a girl with a goal, so a cultural saga of women’s struggles. Maggie Shipstead’s book Great Circle is a multi-saga. From a Google image Search – The Today Show ![]()
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