Great circle novel7/6/2023 Shipstead begins the story with a prelude in three parts. Hadley’s story is interspersed with Marian’s in titled chapters that include a subchapter titled by number (e.g., Chapter: “Red Herrings,” Subchapter: “Thirteen”). As a syntactical note: Marian’s story is parsed in titled chapters that contain subchapters, each of which are titled for the location and date of that moment in Marian’s life (e.g., Chapter: “Millionaire’s Row,” Subchapter: “Seattle May 1931”). There are 22 chapters devoted to Hadley’s story, but the bulk of the novel depicts Marian’s life. Shipstead narrates Marian’s story primarily in the third-person, past tense, and Hadley’s story primarily in the first-person, past tense. There are two plotlines in the novel: that of Marian Graves, an aviator in the twentieth century, and that of Hadley Baxter, an actress starring in a biopic about Marian that is filming in 2014-2015. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2021. The following version of this book was used to create the guide: Shipstead, Maggie.
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