Dear Mrs. Lindbergh: A Novel - Tapa dura

This airborne tale of love and family soarsa breathtaking mix of The Bridges of Madison County and I Was Amelia Earhart. When two elderly Iowans, Ruth and Henry Gutterson, mysteriously disappear, their adult children face a shocking realizationtheir parents planned this escape. In a crate of Ruth's letters, the majority addressed to Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Margaret and John Gutterson read of the origins of their parents' passion: how they first met in 1924 when he crashed his airmail plane into her parents' cornfield; how Ruth flew alongside Henry as his navigator. The birth of a son, however, puts Ruth back on the ground, alone. After their second baby dies, she blames her restless heart, vowing never to fly again. It is fifty-five years before they are back in the cockpit together, just before their disappearance, when they both remember what they've been missing. Dear Mrs. Lindbergh is a deeply moving novel about what gets lost between generations, and what we'll never know about those who came before us.

Kathleen Hughes lives in Bristol, Rhode Island. She attended Yale University and earned her masters in fiction at the University of Iowa Writer's workshop. This is her first novel.