Katharine Wright Takes Flight as a Sleuth
Amanda Flower’s latest historical mystery, To Slip the Bonds of Earth, offers readers a fascinating glimpse into the life of Katharine Wright, the lesser-known but remarkably influential sister of aviation pioneers Wilbur and Orville Wright. While her famous brothers were soaring to new heights in Kitty Hawk in December 1903, Katharine was back in Dayton, Ohio, managing the family’s bicycle shop, teaching Latin, and confronting the era’s constraints on women in academia. But in Flower’s engaging new novel, Katharine embarks on a challenge that even she couldn’t have foreseen: solving mysteries.