The flight portfolio book review5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() As in 2010’s superb The Invisible Bridge, Orringer seamlessly combines compelling inventions with complex fact: figures including Marc Chagall and Andre Breton make vivid appearances, while Skiff and his relationship with Fry are unforgettable fictional creations. Fry falls in love with Grant again as he makes increasingly high-stakes decisions about who, and what, to save. “Skiff,” who vanished from Fry’s life without explanation 12 years before, wants helps getting his German-born Jewish lover, Gregor Katznelson, and Katznelson’s son out of Europe. Then he is contacted by his one-time Harvard classmate Elliott Schiffman Grant, with whom he shared an intense mutual attraction. ![]() governments, Fry makes anguished decisions about which “clients” to help and which to leave in danger. Faced with meager resources, an enormous task, and suspicion from both the Vichy and U.S. In 1940, Fry leaves his wife and job behind in New York and travels to Marseille for the Emergency Rescue Committee, formed to get prominent intellectuals and creative artists safely to America. ![]() Orringer’s magnificent novel is centered around American journalist Varian Fry’s work helping imperiled refugees out of Nazi-occupied France. ![]()
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