“You know, Ida Mae Jones, you were born to be a WASP. You’ll do just fine without me.”
Flygirl begins on December 7, 1941, a day that will live in infamy. World War two has just started. For Ida Mae Jones, it means her brother will join the US Army and fight with the other coloreds, a dangerous position. With skin light enough to pass for white, Ida Mae becomes Jonesy, a flygirl in the Women Airforce Service Pilots. Thanks to her father’s instruction in flying his Jenny, a small crop duster, Jonesy adapts to larger plans and more dangerous flights with relative ease and excitement. But pretending to be white during Jim Crow is easier said than done for a housemaid.
Everything about this book will draw you in: the authenticity of the time, the danger, the racial tension and injustice, the language and dialogue.
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