Given that Snowden is a liar and a thief prone to self-pity, this isn’t as easy as it may sound. the ability to make the reader care for his protagonist. Here, his other great quality as a writer comes out: i.e.
The Flight Attendant is more measured than some of his other works. The author’s great strength lies in his ability to spin a lively tale with all sorts of plot twists and unexpected outcomes.
Chris Bohjalian in Yerevan (Photo: Aaron Spagnolo) Bohjalian possesses a knack for dialogue and his characters interact with preternatural ease: even if some of them can feel a bit caricatured at times, they are alive and enticing. So what exactly do you do when you wake up in a hotel room in Dubai next to a dead man, in a land notorious for its rather harsh penal codes? The answer takes the reader on a whirlwind adventure across three continents of love, murder and mafia intrigue galore. Single, in her 40s, and still prone to incidents of black out sex, she’s one hot mess. Snowden is a flight attendant and a boozer, the daughter of an alcoholic father, whose drinking has not quite caught up with her-yet.
Cover: Doubleday)Ībout 20 pages into The Flight Attendant-by the time protagonist Cassie Snowden extricates herself from a hotel room that can only be described as a way incriminating crime scene-you know that you are in for another well-paced Chris Bohjalian thriller. ISBN: 978-0385542418 Hardcover, $26.95 Bohjalian’s latest novel, released on March 13, 2018, is New York Times bestseller, a Wall Street Journal bestseller, a US Today bestseller, and a National Indiebound bestseller (Photo: The Armenian Weekly.
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