Kathleen Hughes
Dear Mrs. Lindbergh
A Novel
"A compassionate exploration of a woman's life—between motherhood and dreaming, living the everyday and taking flight."—Jane Mendelsohn, author of I Was Amelia Earhart
When two elderly Iowans, Ruth and Henry Gutterson, disappear mysteriously on their way home from Thanksgiving, their adult children find a crate of Ruth's letters written to Anne Morrow Lindbergh. In the letters the children read of the origins of their parents' passion: how they first met in 1924 when Henry crashed his Air Mail plane into Ruth's family's cornfield; how Ruth flew alongside Henry as his navigator; about Ruth's passion for flying; and how the birth of her children kept her on the ground. Reading group guide included.
"Not a sentence that fails to drive us onward through this saga of a flight family. It is absolutely blithe, free, sweet with muscles. Ms. Hughes kept me up most of a night and I felt I held air in my palms. Smashing."—Barry Hannah
"Hughes tells Ruth's story quietly and compassionately, and readers may brush away tears at the novel's affecting ending."—Publishers Weekly
"Hughes's elegantly constructed debut novel gracefully explores the nature of things that vanish and the things that remain, of longing that endures and love that transcends."—Booklist
"A wonderful tale of the complexities of family and the way that we resolve inner conflict."—Library Journal
Kathleen Hughes lives in Bristol, Rhode Island. She attended Yale University and earned her masters in fiction at the University of Iowa Writer's workshop. This is her first novel.
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