Landing: A Novel by Emma Donoghue

"Landing is an old-fashioned love story with a uniquely twenty-first-century twist. This romantic comedy explores the pleasures and sorrows of long-distance relationships - the kind that millions of us now maintain by plane, phone, and the Internet. Sile, an Irishwoman with an Indian mother, is a stylish citizen of the new Dublin. A veteran flight attendant turning 40, she is getting itchy in her career as well as in her domestic life. Jude is a twenty-five-year old Canadian who runs a one-room museum and is stubbornly attached to the tiny town of Ireland, Ontario, where she was born and raised. On Jude's first plane trip, their two worlds touch and snag at Heathrow Airport. In the course of the next year, their lives - full of men, women, commitments, and complications - will be drawn into a new, shaky orbit. This story explores age-old questions: Does where you live matter more than who you live with? What would you give up for love, and would you be a fool to do so?"

--BOOK JACKET.