Flight path

By Hannah Palmer

Subjects: Local History, Biography, William B. Hartsfield-Atlanta International Airport, Atlanta metropolitan area (ga.), Georgia (republic), history, Georgia (republic), social life and customs, Economic conditions, Social life and customs, History, Influence

Description: In the months leading up to the birth of her first child, Hannah Palmer discovers that all three of her childhood houses have been wiped out by the expansion of Atlantas Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. Having uprooted herself from a promising career in publishing in her adopted Brooklyn), Palmer embarks on a quest to determine the fate of her lost homesand of a community that has been erased by unchecked Southern progress.