Contrary Warriors: Ex-Pilot's Culture-Defying New Novel Sends Maverick Native American Women on Mission to Prove Iran's Nuclear Intentions
While Sheryl Wright has clocked up thousands of flying hours behind the controls of commercial aircraft, she has remained disenfranchised by literature's preference to depict pilots as slick-cut, dashing men. When her flying career was abruptly halted in 1999 by botched surgery on her torn esophagus, the resulting battle for survival sparked a unique mission of its own – to write a book that portrays women aviators as the fearless, go-getting powerhouses they are in the real world.
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