58th Avenue Book Group: Fly Girls by Keith O'Brien

Join us at the Velma Teague Library in our meeting room for this in-person book discussion on Fly Girls by Keith O'Brien. This is a hybrid program, meaning that we will also have a virtual Team option. Please email the coordinator at jcoon@glendaleaz.com to obtain the team login information. 

Fly Girls weaves together the stories of five remarkable women: Florence Klingensmith, a high school dropout from Fargo, North Dakota; Ruth Elder an Alabama divorcee; Amelia Earhart, the most famous, but not necessarily the most skilled; Ruth Nichols, who chafed at her blue blood family's expectations; and Louise Thaden, the young mother of two who got her start selling coal in Wichita. Together, they fought for the chance to fly and race airplanes - and in 1936, one of them would triumph, beating the men in the toughest air race of them all.