An epistolary novel of historical fiction that imagines the life of
Katharine Wright and her relationship with her famous brothers,
Wilbur and Orville Wright. On December 17, 1903, Orville and Wilbur
Wright flew the world's first airplane at Kitty Hawk, North
Carolina, establishing the Wright Brothers as world-renowned
pioneers of flight. Known to far fewer people was their whip-smart
and well-educated sister Katharine, a suffragette and early
feminist. After Wilbur passed away, Katharine lived with and took
care of her increasingly reclusive brother Orville, who often
turned to his more confident and supportive sister to help him
through fame and fortune. But when Katharine became engaged to
their mutual friend, Harry Haskell, Orville felt abandoned and
betrayed. He smashed a pitcher of flowers against a wall and
refused to attend the wedding or speak to Katharine or Harry. As
the years went on, the siblings grew further and further apart. In
The Wright Sister, Patty Dann wonderfully imagines the blossoming
of Katharine, revealed in her "Marriage Diary"-in which she emerges
as a frank, vibrant, intellectually and socially engaged, sexually
active woman coming into her own-and her one-sided correspondence
with her estranged brother as she hopes to repair their fractured
relationship. Even though she pictures "Orv" throwing her letters
away, Katharine cannot contain her joie de vivre, her love of
married life, her strong advocacy of the suffragette cause, or her
abiding affection for her stubborn sibling as she fondly recalls
their shared life. An inspiring and poignant chronicle of feminism,
family, and forgiveness, The Wright Sister is an unforgettable
portrait of a woman, a sister of inventors, who found a way to
reinvent herself.
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