Fly Girl
A Memoir
by Ann Hood
Pub Date 03 May 2022 |
W. W. Norton & Company
Biographies & Memoirs | Travel
I am reviewing a copy of Fly Girl , A Memoir through W.W. Norton & Company and Netgalley:
It was 1978, the tail wind of the Golden era of traveling by air, back when flight attendants were the epitome of glamor and sophistication. Ann Hood was fresh out of college, ready to experience the world and maybe even write about it, and perhaps even write about it someday!
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. Ann Hood joined the ranks.
Ann Hood found both the adventure was all she dreamed of as well as the 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.
Just as the air industry started to change around here, Hood began writing 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.
If you are looking for a writing advice book, full of tips on how to go about different aspects of a writing career, Fly Girl is not that book…But if you are looking for one writers inspiring, and exciting start to writing, I highly recommend Fly Girl.
Five out of five stars!
Happy Reading!
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