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The story begins with the strange friendship between David and Richard, Rachel's husband. Although David and Rachel are cold towards one another at the beginning of the story, a strange relationship develops between them as a result of Richard's insistence that David teach Rachel how to fly. Richard insists that David is the only instructor he can trust with Rachel's safety and he repeats, multiple times during the story, that she needs to stay busy and happy, an obvious credit to the failing relations between Richard and Rachel.

As a backdrop to the tail, "Augusta Airlines", the fictitious name for an apparently real airline from David's past, grows as an airline empire and Richard begins climbing the corporate ladder. In a scene in the middle of the book, we see Richard at a press conference announcing his ascension to Chief Executive Officer of Augusta Airlines. In that same scene, David asks to take a leave of absence from Augusta in order to work as a private pilot for a few years. This seemingly innocent scene actually sets the stage for Rachel to become even more attached to David through her flight lessons due to his separation from an entity to which her husband is so attached.

Lessons continue for Rachel as Richard becomes even more encapsulated by Augusta. Meanwhile David finds a new love and marriage to a woman named Sandra and Rachel is obviously envious of this emotional attachment. Things between David and Sandra don't stay happy for long, however, and soon David and Rachel find comfort in their discussions of mutual suffering.

True story aside, Paper Airplanes is full of wonderful metaphors using planes as a means for both physical and emotional escape for both David and Rachel. Their respective children play surprisingly important roles over the course of this ten-year affair and end up ultimately giving David and Rachel much more character depth than originally anticipated.

Paper Airplanes is a quick, easy, yet engaging read with an emotionally appropriate ending. According to the introduction, this book was written to give David some closure on what had happened over the course of those ten years and he chose a talented author to paint a beautiful and emotional picture of this real story.

It's unclear how much of it actually happened or with which company this all took place. The biographies list David as a current pilot with American Airlines, but it also states that he's been working as a pilot for twenty years. Since there is very little information available about David and his career, it leaves the reader wondering when and where this all took place. As a novel, though, it is full of engaging characters and emotional story lines that appeal to any reader, whether or not its real.


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