A review by amymo73
Crossing the Horizon by Laurie Notaro

3.0

Found this book at the library when I was returning another one. I'm familiar with Laurie Notaro from her books of essays (The Idiot Girls Guides are fantastic) so I thought I'd give this historical novel a whirl. The story follows three women who want to be the first of their sex to fly across the Atlantic Ocean. Two of them, Elsie Mackey and Ruth Elder, were actual pilots. Mabel Boll was a socialite who wanted to be the first as a passenger. (Funny how this wasn't a distinction back in the 1920s.) At times the story seemed to drag, but it has to be incredibly difficult to write a novel that's as close to factual as possible while creating dialogue and scenes. But it did give an interesting look at the race (craze really) to be the first woman to make the flight and as me curious to read more about Amelia Earhart.