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The Aviator's Wife
by Melanie Benjamin
Ugh. I really struggled with this book. I've read a couple of books by Anne Morrow Lindbergh and felt that I had a fairly good understanding of who she was as a person - how she felt about motherhood, her love for her husband, and the sorrows and happiness she felt throughout her life. This book was the complete opposite of all that I felt. At first I was confused and really doubted my own I interpretations of her books that I read. Then I started to feel mad and frustrated as I continued on because I realized what the author had done. She took the facts of Anne's life and correctly portrayed them, but then all else was fiction.....the author's guess as to who the Lindbergh's were and how they acted in their personal lives. I know that that's what authors who write historical fictions do, but when we have the actual journals and books of the person she's writing about, then it just seems wrong to completely rewrite how someone felt. Upon further research of the author, she's done similar things in the two other books she's written and readers weren't happy.
In all, if you want to find out more about Anne and the Lindbergh's, read her own words or those of their children.
In all, if you want to find out more about Anne and the Lindbergh's, read her own words or those of their children.