The Wright Sister
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The Wright Sister

A Novel

  1. 221 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

The Wright Sister

A Novel

About this book

An "immensely readable" novel inspired by the life of Katharine Wright and her brother Orville, a tale of estrangement and enduring love(Sally Koslow, international bestselling author of Another Side of Paradise).
On December 17, 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright flew the world's first airplane at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, establishing the Wright Brothers as world-renowned pioneers of flight. Known to fewer people was their whip-smart sister Katharine, a suffragette and early feminist.
After Wilbur passed away, Katharine lived with and took care of her reclusive brother Orville. But when Katharine became engaged to their mutual friend, Harry Haskell, Orville felt abandoned and betrayed. He refused to attend the wedding or speak to Katharine or Harry. As the years went on, the siblings grew further and further apart.
In  The Wright Sister, Patty Dann wonderfully imagines the blossoming of Katharine, revealed in her "Marriage Diary"—in which she emerges as a vibrant, intellectually and socially engaged, sexually active woman coming into her own—and her one-sided correspondence with her estranged brother as she hopes to repair their relationship. Even though she pictures "Orv" throwing her letters away, Katharine cannot contain her love of married life, her strong advocacy of the suffragette cause, or her abiding affection for her stubborn sibling as she fondly recalls their shared life—in an unforgettable portrait of a woman, a sister of inventors who found a way to reinvent herself.
"A marvel . . . [a] brilliant novel whose characters are now stored in my heart like favorite, absent friends." — Elinor Lipman, author of  Ms. Demeanor
"Dann does an amazing job of transporting readers in time by imaging Katharine's joy, her devotion to Orville, and the pain she feels from their one-sided correspondence." — Booklist
"No longer hidden by history, the wind beneath Wilbur and Orville's wings—their brainy sibling Katharine—soars in  The Wright Sister. [This] epistolary page-turner chronicles a woman taking flight past fifty." — Sally Koslow, author of  The Late, Lamented Molly Marx
"Captures the voice of Katharine Wright with uncanny verisimilitude . . . poignant." —Sheila Kohler, author of  Once We Were Sisters

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Information

Publisher
Harper Perennial
Year
2020
eBook ISBN
9780062993120
Print ISBN
9780062993113
Subtopic
Women in Fiction

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. November 21, 1926
  7. November 22, 1926
  8. November 23, 1926
  9. Later on November 23, 1926
  10. November 24, 1926
  11. Thursday, November 25, 1926
  12. November 30, 1926
  13. December 8, 1926
  14. December 9, 1926
  15. December 22, 1926—Winter Solstice
  16. February 1, 1927
  17. Later on February 1, 1927
  18. February 2, 1927
  19. February 3, 1927
  20. February 4, 1927
  21. February 15, 1927
  22. Later on February 15, 1927
  23. March 6, 1927
  24. March 7, 1927
  25. March 9, 1927
  26. June 1, 1927
  27. June 1, 1927
  28. June 12, 1927
  29. August 19, 1927
  30. August 20, 1927
  31. August 22, 1927
  32. August 23, 1927
  33. August 24, 1927
  34. August 24, 1927
  35. August 25, 1927
  36. August 26, 1927
  37. August 27, 1927
  38. August 28, 1927
  39. Later on August 28, 1927
  40. August 29, 1927
  41. August 30, 1927
  42. August 31, 1927
  43. September 1, 1927
  44. September 23, 1927
  45. September 24, 1927
  46. September 25, 1927
  47. September 26, 1927
  48. September 26, 1927
  49. September 27, 1927
  50. September 28, 1927
  51. September 29, 1927
  52. September 30, 1927
  53. Later on September 30, 1927
  54. October 1, 1927
  55. October 3, 1927
  56. October 4, 1927
  57. October 5, 1927
  58. October 6, 1927
  59. October 7, 1927
  60. October 8, 1927
  61. October 10, 1927
  62. October 13, 1927
  63. October 17, 1927
  64. October 18, 1927
  65. October 19, 1927
  66. October 22, 1927
  67. October 24, 1927
  68. October 25, 1927
  69. October 27, 1927
  70. October 28, 1927
  71. October 29, 1927
  72. October 30, 1927
  73. November 20, 1927—My One-Year Anniversary
  74. November 30, 1927
  75. December 1, 1927
  76. December 2, 1927
  77. December 15, 1927
  78. Sunday, January 1, 1928
  79. January 2, 1928
  80. January 15, 1928
  81. January 16, 1928
  82. January 17, 1928
  83. January 25, 1928
  84. January 26, 1928
  85. January 26, 1928
  86. February 1, 1928
  87. March 1, 1928
  88. March 17, 1928
  89. May 18, 1928
  90. May 19, 1928
  91. May 20, 1928
  92. June 27, 1928
  93. June 28, 1928
  94. June 29, 1928
  95. July 30, 1928
  96. July 30, 1928
  97. July 31, 1928
  98. August 10, 1928
  99. August 15, 1928
  100. August 16, 1928
  101. August 21, 1928
  102. August 30, 1928
  103. August 30, 1928
  104. August 31, 1928
  105. Labor Day 1928
  106. September 9, 1928
  107. September 12, 1928
  108. October 15, 1928
  109. November 10, 1928
  110. November 21, 1928
  111. December 4, 1928
  112. December 21, 1928—Winter Solstice
  113. January 1, 1929
  114. January 7, 1929
  115. January 28, 1929
  116. January 29, 1929
  117. February 18, 1929
  118. February 18, 1929
  119. February 21, 1929
  120. February 23, 1929
  121. February 23, 1929
  122. February 23, 1929
  123. February 24, 1929
  124. February 25, 1929
  125. February 26, 1929
  126. February?
  127. February ?, 1929 (my calendar is downstairs), written upstairs by hand . . .
  128. February 28, 1929
  129. February ?, 1929
  130. Orv, Orv dear, February 28 or is it the 18th?
  131. March 1, 1929
  132. March? I Do Not Know When
  133. Another Day in March?
  134. Dear Orv
  135. Author’s Note
  136. Acknowledgments
  137. P.S. Insights, Interviews & More . . .*
  138. Copyright
  139. About the Publisher

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