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Characters |
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Marian Graves |
Hadley Baxter |
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Addison
Graves – father, ship captain, abandoned ship and saved twins Annabel –
wife, drowned Jamie – twin,
brother, artist Wallace –
Addison’s brother, raised twins Berit - housekeeper Caleb Kamaka –
school friend Joey – son Sarah Fahey –
girl Jamie met in Seattle Adelaide
Scott – daughter, sculptress, met Marian as a child, Jamie’s biological
daughter The Flying
Brayfogles -Felix and Trixie Trout Marx –
pilot, teacher Barclay
Macqueen – bootlegger, owns plane, husband, eventually jailed Sadler –
chauffer Katie -
daughter 1934 – Marian
to Atlanta – aka Jane Smith, abortion, paid to fly WWII: Jamie –
artist for Navy Marian – pilot
for Air Transport Auxiliary in Britain Riat Bloom –
pilot, Marian’s love interest New Zealand –
last 46 years of life: Becomes
Martin Wallace, then Alice Root Visited by
Caleb The Sea,
the Sky, the Birds Between: The Lost Logbook of Marian Graves – published
by Matilda Feiffer – found 1958 |
Parents plane
crashed into Lake Superior Mitch –
uncle, raised Hadley Roles: Katie McGee
in “The Big-Time Life of Katie McGee” as a child and teen Marian Graces
– “Peregrine” Eddie Bloom –
navigator on movie Siobhan –
agent Oliver –
living with Hadley, left after scandal Alexei Young
– agent Wings of
Peregrine: A Novel – by Carol Feiffer Redwood
Feiffer – wants to produce movie Movie
“Peregrine” Sir Hugo –
agent, brought movie idea to Hadley Bart Olofsson
- director |
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Others |
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Lloyd Feiffer
– L & O Ship Lines, Addison saved his life as a child Matilda –
funded Marian’s flight, 1948 bought publishing company, Sons – Henry,
Clifford, Robert, Leander (died, age 6), George |
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Real aviators
mentioned in novel – Jimmy Doolittle, Commander Richard Byrd, Amy Johnson,
Elenor Smith, Amelia Earhart, Wiley Post, Amy Johnson and Jim Malison, Bill
Lancaster |
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For Discussion:
NOTE: Page numbers are from hardback edition.
1.
Did the inclusion of real aviators in the novel
add to your understanding of Marian Graves and her desire for flight?
2.
Did the parts about the advances in flight add
to you reading? Did they help you
understand Marian’s adventuress personality?
Would you have been as daring as Marian and the early pilots?
3.
As you were reading the two stories, which did
you enjoy the most. Did your reading
experience change at any time throughout the novel?
4.
Did you like the organization of the book with
Hadley interspersed with Marion but not on a regular basis?
5.
Why do you think Marion married Macqueen? When he sent her Trout Marx and the plane,
she thought it was a bargain and he thought it was a gift. Was it really just a gift in his view?
6.
How and why did the Feiffer’s get involved with
Marian’s story and publish her book?
7.
There were multiple characters beyond those
listed in the chart, such as the Ayukawa family and daughter Sally who ran away
from an arranged marriage after Jamie painted her portrait. How important were they to the story? Did you have trouble keeping everyone
straight?
8.
There were several times when the author had the
characters muse about the meaning of life and other issues. Some examples are page 500 when Adelaide
said to Hadley, “It’s impossible to fully explain yourself while you are alive…”
and “Art is distortion but a form of distortion that has the possibility of
offering clarification…” Also on pages
264-265, when Redwood asked Hadley where they were, she answered, “The Angels”
and described it in a very long paragraph starting with “It’s wind chimes and
helicopters…gongs, oms and whale songs…”
What did you think about these sections?
9.
A lot of reviewers thought this book could have
been much shorter. If you agree, what would you have eliminated?
10. When
you read the section early in the novel about Sitting-in-the-Water-Grizzly,
what did you think? How did this fit
into the novel?
11. At
the end of the book, who came to Joey’s porch on page 571?
12. Did
you like the ending? Why do you think
Marian decided to disappear?
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