BEST FICTION BOOKS
1 Great Circle
he beginning of ’s astounding novel, a Booker finalist, includes a series of endings: two plane crashes, a sunken ship and several people dead. The bad luck continues when one of the ship’s young survivors, Marian, grows up to become a pilot—only to disappear on the job. Shipstead unravels her protagonist’s life in glorious detail through a narrative made to be devoured, one that is both timeless and fulfilling.
