Still, Hood describes them with the easy intimacy of a friend, confessing her foibles as she stirs a pot of red sauce. Her collection of meditations on food and life touches the big themes: grief for a brother and a small child gone suddenly, two divorces and the end of a grand affair. "Hood’s essays are like hot chocolate, cozy and warm. 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.įlying into a bookstore near you on May 3rd, 2022! She reveals how the job empowered her, despite its roots in sexist standards. She flew through the start of deregulation, an oil crisis, massive furloughs, and a labor strike.Īs the airline industry changed around her, Hood began to write-even drafting snatches of her first novel from the jump-seat. She carved chateaubriand in the first-class cabin, found romance on layovers in London and Lisbon, and walked more than a million miles in high heels, smiling as she served thousands of passengers. Fresh out of college and hungry to experience the world, Ann Hood joined their ranks. In 1978, in the tailwind of the Golden Age of air travel, flight attendants were the epitome of glamor and sophistication. An entertaining and fascinating memoir of “gifted storyteller” (People) Ann Hood’s adventurous years as a TWA flight attendant named one of Spring 2022's "Most Anticipated Books" by Apple Books
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