Ann Hood’s new memoir, “Fly Girl” chronicles her time flying the friendly skies from 1979 to 1986 as a TWA flight attendant.
Ann Hood was 11 years old, living in a small Rhode Island town in the 1960s, when she picked up a book called “How to Become an Airline Stewardess.” The manual described breakfasts in New York, dinners in Rome and boyfriends in every city in the world.
Hood proved him wrong. Not only would she work as a flight attendant for TWA, but she would also become an author in the process, writing her first novel while logging long hours up in the air. Her new memoir, “It was, she writes, “one of the most demanding, sexist, exciting, glorious jobs a person can have.”
“People were sent home every day because they failed written tests, showed a bad attitude, got too frightened during emergency procedures, or just got homesick,” Hood writes. She learned to “evacuate seven kinds of aircraft,” deliver babies, administer oxygen, apply eyeliner and lipstick without a mirror, extinguish fires, mix cocktails, “brush off passes from male passengers” and “make a baby rattle out of two plastic cups and a couple TWA propeller-shaped swizzle sticks.
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