Dear Mrs. Lindbergh

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This airborne tale of love and family soarsa breathtaking mix of The Bridges of Madison County and I Was Amelia Earhart. When two elderly Iowans, Ruth and Henry Gutterson, mysteriously disappear, their adult children face a shocking realizationtheir parents planned this escape. In a crate of Ruth's letters, the majority addressed to Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Margaret and John Gutterson read of the origins of their parents' passion: how they first met in 1924 when he crashed his airmail plane into her parents' cornfield; how Ruth flew alongside Henry as his navigator. The birth of a son, however, puts Ruth back on the ground, alone. After their second baby dies, she blames her restless heart, vowing never to fly again. It is fifty-five years before they are back in the cockpit together, just before their disappearance, when they both remember what they've been missing. Dear Mrs. Lindbergh is a deeply moving novel about what gets lost between generations, and what we'll never know about those who came before us.