Kyle Harrison
to-read
TransAtlantic
- Author
- Colum McCann
- Published
- 2013
- Pages
- 328
- Recommended
- Once
Why it’s on the list: Three Atlantic crossings — Alcock and Brown’s 1919 flight, Frederick Douglass’s 1845 lecture tour of Ireland, and George Mitchell’s 1998 peace negotiation — braided with the women whose lives run underneath them.
Where I saw it: A reply to @moseskagan’s question on X, April 13, 2025 — “What historical fiction should I read next?” — recovered from that thread and saved to Kyle’s Apple Note “Books To Read”. Thread: https://x.com/moseskagan/status/1911280597928231261
Connections
- What historical fiction should I… (tweet) — the saved thread this recommendation came from.
- Historical Fiction · Literature · Migration — where this sits in the corpus.