Visible Empire

An ';intimate and revelatory' (Tom Perrota) novelbased on true eventscharting a single sweltering summer in Atlanta that left no one unchanged On a humid summer day, the phones begin to ring: disaster has struck. Chateau de Sully, a Boeing 707 chartered to ferry home more than one hundred of Atlanta's most prominent citizens from a European jaunt, crashed in Paris shortly after takeoff. Overnight, the city of Atlanta changes. Left behind are children, spouses, lovers, and friendsfaced with renegotiating their livesthe hedonism of the sixties and the urgency of the civil rights movement at the city's doorstep. With Visible Empire, Hannah Pittard ';brings her kaleidoscopic perspective to a catastrophe on an epic scale' (Los Angeles Times). Captivating and ambitiousand inspired by true eventsthis is a story of race, class, power, privilege, and, ultimately, of promise and hope.