2021/118: Great Circle -- Maggie Shipstead

2021/118: Great Circle -- Maggie Shipstead

I hate the never-ending day. The sun circles me like a vulture. I want a respite of stars... Circles are wondrous because they are endless. Anything endless is wondrous. But endlessness is torture, too. I knew the horizon could never be caught but still chased it. [loc. 441]

On New Year's Day 1950, pilot Marian Graves and navigator Eddie Bloom set off to circumnavigate the earth the hard way, longitudinally, passing over both north and south poles: a great circle, the longest journey possible on this planet. And in 2014, film star Hadley Baxter is trying to reinvent her career, and perhaps herself, by playing Marian in a biopic.

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