After being rescued as infants from a sink ing ocean liner in 1914\, Marian and Jamie Graves are raised by their diss olute uncle in Missoula\, Montana. There --after encountering a pair of pi lots passing through town in a beat up Cessna--Marian commences her lifelo ng love affair with flight. At fifteen\, she drops out of school and finds an unexpected and dangerous patron in a wealthy rancher who provides a pl ane and subsidizes her lessons\, an arrangement that will haunt her for th e rest of her life\, even as it allows her to fulfill her destiny: circumn avigating the globe and piloting her plane over the Arctic Circle. A centu ry later\, Hadley Baxter is cast to play Marian in a film that centers on Marian's disappearance over the South Pacific. Vibrant\, canny\, disgusted with the claustrophobia of Hollywood\, Hadley is eager to re-define herse lf after a romantic film franchise has imprisoned her in the grip of cult celebrity. Her immersion into the character of Marian unfolds\, thrillingl y\, alongside Marian's own story\, as the two womens' fates--and their hun ger for self-determination in vastly different geographies and times-- col lide. Epic and emotional\, meticulously researched and gloriously told\, G reat Circle is a monumental work of art\, and a tremendous leap forward fo r the prodigiously gifted Maggie Shipstead
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