Literature Cassie met on her flight the day before and spent the night lying next to her. The story begins with protagonist Cassandra (“Cassie”) Bowden, a middle-class flight attendant who wakes up one morning with a horrible hangover in a Dubai hotel, only to find the body of a man, part hedge fund agent. Maybe it was because I also wanted to be a flight attendant one day.īut before all this speculation, I had never imagined that I would enjoy contemporary fiction until I found The Flight Attendant by Chris Bohjalian reading the excerpt from the book which is actually a thriller about a lonely woman on an emotional flight through her life, enmeshed in a web of international intrigue and personal entanglements uncovered as the story progresses, forcing the reader to pay attention to each subsequent chapter. Perhaps it was the hauntingly enigmatic cover, with a title realistically and seductively associated with the popular image of the profession – glamour, romance and adventure in the high heavens of the world – that set the profession apart from its earthly counterparts. Set in the captivating world of those whose lives unfold at forty thousand feet, The Flight Attendant reveals a gripping tale of memory, the dizzying pleasures of alcohol, and the devastating consequences of addiction and murder far from home.
Could she have killed him herself? If not, who did? It will soon be too late to clean up or face the truth of what really happened in Dubai. She lies to the FBI agents in New York who meet her at the door. She is on her way to Paris while working in the first class cabin. She lies that as she joins the other flight attendants and the pilots in the van.
And blood, a slippery, still-wet puddle on the snow-white sheets.Īfraid to call the cops (she’s a single woman alone in a hotel room far away from home), Cassie begins to lie. She slips quietly out of bed, careful not to aggravate her headache, and looks at the man she spent the night with. Waking up in a Dubai hotel room, she tries to rebuild the night before and counts down the minutes until she has to take her crew’s transport to the airport. She lives with them and the self loathing that comes with them. She’s a heavy drinker, her airline job makes finding adventure easy, and the occasional power outage seems inevitable. Cassandra Bowden is no stranger to hangover mornings.
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