Bibliograph

Flight path, a search for roots beneath the world's busiest airport, Hannah Palmer

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Flight path, a search for roots beneath the world's busiest airport, Hannah Palmer

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Illustrations

illustrationsportraitsmaps

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Flight path

Oclc number

957139400

Responsibility statement

Hannah Palmer

Sub title

a search for roots beneath the world's busiest airport

Summary

"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 Atlanta's 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 homes--and of a community that has been erased by unchecked Southern progress. Palmer's journey takes her from the ruins of kudzu-covered, airport-owned ghost towns to carefully preserved cemeteries wedged between the runways; into awkward confrontations with airport planners, developers, and even her own parents. Along the way, Palmer becomes an amateur detective, an urban historian, and a mother."--Cover flap

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