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Hopscotching between Marian’s past and Hadley’s present, Shipstead charts for us the circuitous routes we take to break free of the forces-societal, emotional, physical-that keep us rooted in place. Like Hadley, Marian will align herself with people and circumstances that grant her freedom-inside a gilded cage. The sky sings of freedom, and Marian is desperate for a hunk of metal and parts of her own to buoy her into the clouds. One day a pair of pilots whoosh into town, and Marian is immediately transfixed. Woven into Hadley’s exploration of her new role is the actual story of Marian and her childhood with her twin brother and uncle in a gabled Queen Anne house in Missoula, Montana, in the 1920s. It feels serendipitous, a chance to prove something to her detractors-and more importantly, to herself. The memory of her connection to Marian’s story percolates. Then she’s offered a saving grace: the role of Marian Graves in a new biopic. Marian’s story is a forgotten relic of childhood when Hadley sabotages her cushy multi-film franchise role and retreats to her mansion to float in the pool and contemplate what she should do with herself. “The world was my oyster, and freedom was my mignonette.”īut tastes change, and now Hadley is a firecracker trapped in a cinched paper bag, popping and fizzling and desperate for air. “I was probably more of an impetuous little brat than Marian,” Hadley says. Hadley did what any child of such an uncle would do and plummeted into television. Like Marian, Hadley’s parents both died while she was young, orphaning her to the care of an uncle, a producer and director. Stardom made for a confining childhood, but young Hadley had stumbled upon Marian’s logbook one day at the library and discovered a kindred spirit. Marian’s legacy follows her death like a dogged shadow, revived in her logbook after it is found and published years later and again in a subsequent biography and conspiracy theories and tales of the brave women who took to flight during a time when women were thought not to be able to do much (nor were they welcomed) beyond the domestic.įast forward to 2014, and Hollywood’s “it” girl of the moment, Hadley Baxter, is tired of her life.