Northwest Passages Book Club / The Spokesman-Review

Northwest Passages Book Club - Maggie Shipstead

Available from Auntie's Bookstore An unforgettable story of a daredevil female aviator determined to chart her own course in life, at any cost, "Great Circle" spans Prohibition-era Montana, the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, New Zealand, wartime London, and modern-day Los Angeles.

Details

Date/Time: May 12, 2021, 7 p.m.

Complete Coverage

Stories

News > Features

Maggie Shipstead talks the ‘primordial soup’ of writing and her new novel ‘Great Circle’ at Northwest Passages Book Club

UPDATED: Thu., May 13, 2021

Maggie Shipstead’s “Great Circle” follows aviator Marian Graves through Prohibition-era Montana, the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, New Zealand, wartime London and beyond, as she charts her own course through life and love. Nearly a century later, actress Hadley Baxter is cast as Graves in a biopic chronicling the events leading up to and following her disappearance over Antarctica.

A&E > Books

Maggie Shipstead’s ‘Great Circle’ intertwines lives of female pilot, Hollywood actress 70 years apart

Sat., May 8, 2021

Marian Graves is a girl who wants to be a pilot in the early 20th century, a time when women couldn’t even vote much less work in paying jobs where they defied gravity and risked crashing into mountains.