Great Circle: A Novel (Man Booker Prize Finalist)

"After being rescued as infants from a sinking ocean liner in 1914, Marian and Jamie Graves are raised by their dissolute uncle in Missoula, Montana...At fifteen, she drops out of school and finds an unexpected and dangerous patron in a wealthy rancher who provides a plane and subsidizes her lessons...it allows her to fulfill her destiny: circumnavigating the globe...A century later, Hadley Baxter is cast to play Marian in a film that centers on Marian's disappearance over the South Pacific...Her immersion into the character of Marian unfolds, thrillingly, alongside Marian's own story, as the two womens' fates collide"--