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"A humorously light-hearted read with many laugh-out-loud moments. . . . Landing Gear is truly a 21st century story about holding onto family and secrets in the Internet age." Toronto Star
SPRING 2010
A volcano explodes in Iceland and airspace shuts down over Europe. Harriet, bored by her job in local radio, seizes the moment to get back into news reporting. Meanwhile, her husband, Michael, is stuck in New York and rekindles an old flame. Feeling liberated by the absence of planes in the sky, their teenage son, Jack, takes an unexpected risk and lands in serious trouble. Yacub, a Pakistani migrant worker misses the last plane out of a labour camp in Dubai. And Emily, a young TV researcher, attends her father's funeral on an eerily quiet day when no planes fly.
SPRING 2012
A man falls out of the sky: Yacub stows away in the landing gear of an airplane heading for Heathrow and crashes into Harriet's car in a supermarket parking lot. Miraculously, he survives. But his sudden arrival forever changes the lives of Harriet, Jack, Michael and Emily, pulling them away from their solitary flight paths and towards a new sense of family.
Kate Pullinger draws on real-life accounts of airplane stowaways as the basis for this highly imaginative and exhilarating story about colliding worlds, extraordinary connections and, ultimately, redemption.
SPRING 2010
A volcano explodes in Iceland and airspace shuts down over Europe. Harriet, bored by her job in local radio, seizes the moment to get back into news reporting. Meanwhile, her husband, Michael, is stuck in New York and rekindles an old flame. Feeling liberated by the absence of planes in the sky, their teenage son, Jack, takes an unexpected risk and lands in serious trouble. Yacub, a Pakistani migrant worker misses the last plane out of a labour camp in Dubai. And Emily, a young TV researcher, attends her father's funeral on an eerily quiet day when no planes fly.
SPRING 2012
A man falls out of the sky: Yacub stows away in the landing gear of an airplane heading for Heathrow and crashes into Harriet's car in a supermarket parking lot. Miraculously, he survives. But his sudden arrival forever changes the lives of Harriet, Jack, Michael and Emily, pulling them away from their solitary flight paths and towards a new sense of family.
Kate Pullinger draws on real-life accounts of airplane stowaways as the basis for this highly imaginative and exhilarating story about colliding worlds, extraordinary connections and, ultimately, redemption.
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About the Author:
KATE PULLINGER was born in Canada, and moved to London in 1982 where she currently lives. In 2009, her novel The Mistress of Nothing won the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction, one of Canada's most prestigious literary prizes. Her prize-winning digital fiction projects Inanimate Alice and Flight Paths: A Networked Novel, on which Landing Gear is based, have reached audiences around the world. She collaborated with Jane Campion on the novelization of The Piano, and has written for film, television and radio. She is currently a professor of creative writing and digital media at Bath Spa University.
From Booklist:
Pakistani migrant worker Yacub is desperate to escape the poverty and violence of Karachi. That’s how he ends up falling out of the landing gear of an airplane as it makes its way over London. He lands on the rooftop of Harriet’s car. His survival is miraculous on a number of levels; not only does he survive the fall but he also effects a profound change in Harriet’s family. Harriet, fired from her media job and relegated to filling her days with endless trips to the supermarket, suddenly has a meaningful project as she throws herself into helping Yacub acclimate; Harriet’s teenage son, Jack, who has met with disaster on the social scene, finds Yacub to be a charming companion; and Harriet’s husband, Michael, wracked with guilt over his affair on a business trip, finds that mentoring Yacub will usher him once again into his wife’s good graces. Then there’s Emily, who captured Yacub’s fall on camera and finds she has a surprising connection to Harriet’s family. Pullinger (The Mistress of Nothing, 2010) employs a luminous style in this affecting portrait of loneliness and communion. --Joanne Wilkinson
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- PublisherAnchor Canada
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 0385681224
- ISBN 13 9780385681223
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages304
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