Theasa Tuohy

I don't always read or seek out historical fiction, but this one intrigued me. The era just before the Great Depression, times were full of speakeasies, new adventure, and possibilities. Especially for women. This one does some name dropping but not overly so that I felt it was forced into the story to remind the reader just when this time was.It was natural to read about Amelia Earhart and other flyers since this was what the book was about. Women flying. It's told from two viewpoints, two women in a world where they haven't been exactly accepted before, flying and news reporting. Both are different in their upbringing but both have battles they are fighting each day. Prejudices they must overcome. Prove they can do the job and do it well.
I made notes as I read to look up other personalities and events mentioned. One takes place in Oklahoma where Osage tribe was moved from Kansas and onto land that ended up being rich in oil. They became rich but there were mysterious deaths as well. I am looking this up. I know there must be books out there about this.
I can definitely recommend this book and author… (plus d'informations)

Thanks to LibraryThing and Akashic publishers.

I love historical fiction especially set in the 1920's when things were so different in so many ways especially for women like Laura and Jenny.

Women flying were a new thing then, Jenny being one of a few. Laura, a newspaper reporter for a newspaper in NYC, also a rare job for a woman back then, is tired of the usual stories they give her and wants to sink her teeth into a good one. This is how she meets Jenny and her manager, her husband and a lot of other characters, getting stories and actually going up into a plane herself. She's naive in love and she finds love here also. She also wants to find out about her real father who might have been a priest and who her bohemian mother who was friends with Edna St. Vincent Millay and who Laura considered her aunt. Her mother refuses to talk to her about it and comes to find out from someone she meets in this group of people that it may be true and it was.… (plus d'informations)