The Girl Who Did Not Know Fear is very much a literary story, only speculative in a bit of an out-of-body sequence. The premise is a kind of Groundhog Day In An Airport thing, where a professor coming back from a conference is stranded in Detroit for 5 days waiting for a flight. She's not much of a traveler so it's that much worse, though she seems mentally prepared. It feels weirdly off center, since the title character is actually kind of a side story in a tale of intensely difficult and deeply felt coincidence. The flight in the story is as horrible as one I took on my one and only overseas trip, to London, which was in the end quite worthwhile even though both ends of the trip competed with each other for worst flight ever. The story will find a lot of sympathetic ears.
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