An "intimate and revelatory" (Tom Perrota) novel--based on true events--charting a single sweltering summer in Atlanta that left no one unchanged On a humid summer day, the phones begin to disaster has struck. Chateau de Sully, a Boeing 707 chartered to ferry home more than one hundred of Atlanta's most prominent citizens from a European jaunt, crashed in Paris shortly after takeoff. Overnight, the city of Atlanta changes. Left behind are children, spouses, lovers, and friends faced with renegotiating their lives--the hedonism of the sixties and the urgency of the civil rights movement at the city's doorstep. With Visible Empire, Hannah Pittard "brings her kaleidoscopic perspective to a catastrophe on an epic scale" (Los Angeles Times). Captivating and ambitious--and inspired by true events--this is a story of race, class, power, privilege, and, ultimately, of promise and hope.
Publication Year: 2018
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I was interested to learn about the Orly plane disaster and how it affected Atlanta, but this book was much more fictional than historical fiction. I learned very little about the disaster, and nothing about how it affected Atlanta. I ended up skimming the book less than halfway through.
For readers who aren't looking for a historical novel, you may be happier than I with this story.
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