Visible Empire

<strong>An intimate and revelatory (Tom Perrota) novel--based on true events--charting a single sweltering summer in Atlanta that left no one unchanged</strong> <p/> On a humid summer day the phones begin to ring: disaster has struck. <em>Chateau de Sully </em> 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 friends faced with renegotiating their lives--the hedonism of the sixties and the urgency of the civil rights movement at the city's doorstep. <br> With <em>Visible Empire </em> Hannah Pittard brings her kaleidoscopic perspective to a catastrophe on an epic scale (<em>Los Angeles Times</em>). Captivating and ambitious--and inspired by true events--this is a story of race class power privilege and ultimately of promise and hope.