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May 5, 2022 @ 7:00 pm

Fly Girl: A Virtual Evening with Ann Hood & Laura Lippman

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May 5, 2022
Time:
7:00 pm

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Books & Books and Miami Book Fair present…

A Virtual Evening with

Ann Hood

in conversation with

Laura Lippman

discussing

Fly Girl: A Memoir

(W. W. Norton & Company, $26.95)

Thursday, May 5, 7 PM ET | On Crowdcast

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About the Book:

An entertaining and fascinating memoir of “gifted storyteller” (People) Ann Hood’s adventurous years as a TWA flight attendant.

In 1978, in the tailwind of the golden age of air travel, flight attendants were the epitome of glamor and sophistication. Fresh out of college and hungry to experience the world—and maybe, one day, write about it—Ann Hood joined their ranks. After a grueling job search, Hood survived TWA’s rigorous Breech Training Academy and learned to evacuate seven kinds of aircraft, deliver a baby, mix proper cocktails, administer oxygen, and stay calm no matter what the situation.

In the air, Hood found both the adventure she’d dreamt of and the unexpected realities of life on the job. She carved chateaubriand in the first-class cabin and dined in front of the pyramids in Cairo, fended off passengers’ advances and found romance on layovers in London and Lisbon, and walked more than a million miles in high heels. She flew through the start of deregulation, an oil crisis, massive furloughs, and a labor strike.

As the airline industry changed around her, Hood began to write—even drafting snatches of her first novel from the jump-seat. She reveals how the job empowered her, despite its roots in sexist standards. Packed with funny, moving, and shocking stories of life as a flight attendant, Fly Girl captures the nostalgia and magic of air travel at its height, and the thrill that remains with every takeoff.

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About the Author:

ANN HOOD is the author of the best-selling novels The Book That Matters Most, The Obituary Writer, and The Knitting Circle and the memoir Comfort: A Journey Through Grief. Her most recent book is the memoir Kitchen Yarns: Notes on Life, Love, and Food. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island, and NYC. Her new book is FLY GIRL.

About the Moderator:

LAURA LIPPMAN: Since Laura Lippman’s debut in 1997, she has been recognized as a distinctive voice in mystery fiction and named one of the “essential” crime writers of the last 100 years. Everyone from Roxane Gay to Stephen King, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal have raved about her writing, saying she wrote “the best book of the year” with Sunburn, she’s “the closest writer America has to Ruth Rendell,” “a masterful novelist,” and “ever impressive.” Her books have won most of the major awards in her field and been translated into more than twenty languages.

In addition to brilliant novels, Laura also writes amazing essays that have been published by Long Reads and praised by the LA Times, New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, and EWamong many others. Readers and critics alike find Laura’s wry wit and relatable perspective refreshing and compelling. Most importantly, it leaves them wanting more and more from this great writer, a master of fiction and nonfiction.

She lives in Baltimore and New Orleans with her family.