The flight attendant novel book review6/21/2023 ![]() ![]() Panicking, Cassie flees the room rather than take her chances with the local police. But this time there's an unexpected complication: The young hedge fund manager beside her is dead, his throat slit. The night before, she hooked up with a first-class passenger and then blacked out - not unusual for this binge drinker in her late thirties. ![]() The book opens with Cassie waking up beside a near stranger in a swanky hotel in Dubai. (The same is true for pilots, as the 2012 Denzel Washington movie Flight demonstrated.) And few flight attendants could possibly misbehave with more disastrous consequences than Cassie Bowden, the titular heroine of Vermont author Chris Bohjalian's 20th novel. For these consummate customer-service professionals, soothing sick, frightened or irritable passengers is part of the job.īecause we expect them to be calm and selfless when we aren't, there's a special frisson in stories about flight attendants who misbehave once they're on the ground and off the clock. ![]() When we're hurtling through the air at 35,000 feet, we tend to think of flight attendants as our devoted caretakers. The Flight Attendant by Chris Bohjalian, Doubleday, 368 pages. ![]()
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