Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History by Keith O’Brien
Read by Erin Bennet, with the recording produced by Highbridge Audio
Reviewed by Ryan Paul Winn
Keith O’Brien celebrates a quintet advocating “women’s suffrage of the sky,” explaining how Amelia Earhart, Ruth Nichols, Louise Thaden, Ruth Elder, and Florence Klingensmith made aviation history a decade after the Nineteenth Amendment lifted American women from second-class citizenship. Reader Erin Bennet levitates each quote, flight chronicle, and newspaper account that O’Brien delivers. Oscillating between inspiring and heartbreaking, Fly Girls soars.
Ryan Paul Winn is a columnist and media critic who’s rarely without an audiobook or his earbuds. When not writing or teaching in the Liberal Studies department at College of Menominee Nation in Keshena, Wisconsin, he can be found researching overlooked history in local and national archives.
