American Sky: A Novel

Three generations of indomitable women navigate life on their terms in an epic and inspiring historical novel about love and war family secrets and mothers and daughters finding the freedom to fly. It’s 1943. The war rages. The newly launched WASP program is recruiting. And barnstormer fan Georgeanne “George” Ector’s dream is to take to the skies. Grit is what she inherited from her mother an Oklahoma farm girl at the turn of the century who preferred taking apart an engine to stitching linens for a hope chest. She taught her daughter well. George isn’t the only woman about to follow her calling. Vivian Shaw so similar to George they’re like sisters also longs for a career flying the fastest planes in the American arsenal. For a time George and Vivian triumph. But at war’s end the adventurous women are grounded by the expectations of others: to get married have children and raise a family. Vivian has other plans. So eventually do George’s daughters Rut