num_pages: 304
description: From the award-winning author of The Mistress of Nothing comes a highly imaginative story of colliding worlds and extraordinary connections.Spring 2010. A volcano unexpectedly erupts in Iceland and airspace is shut down over Europe. Harriet works in local radio in London and with most of her colleagues abroad she seizes a unique career opportunity. Her husband Michael stuck in New York on business travels to visit an old flame and their teenage son Jack feeling liberated from normal life takes an unexpected risk only to find himself in trouble. Meanwhile Emily a young TV researcher loses her adoptive father to a heart attack and half a world away a Pakistani migrant worker named Yacub is stranded in a Dubai labor camp.Two years later Yacub attempting to stow away falls out of the landing gear of an airplane onto Harriets car in a London supermarket parking lotand surviveswhile Emily accidentally captures it all on film. Yacubs sudden arrival in the lives of Harriet Jack Michael and Emily catapults these characters into a series of life-changing events ultimately revealing the tenuous often unexpected ties that bind us together.Inspired by real-life accounts of airplane stowaways Landing Gear is about the complex texture of modern life and how we fight the loneliness of the nuclear family to hold on to one another.
language: English
title: Landing Gear
publisher: Touchstone