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An "intimate and revelatory" (Tom Perrota) novel - based on true events - charting a single sweltering summer in Atlanta that left no one unchanged. On a humid summer day, the phones begin to ring: disaster has struck. Chateau de Sully, a Boeing 707 chartered to ferry home more than one hundred of Atlantas most prominent citizens from a European jaunt, crashed in Paris shortly after takeoff. Overnight, the city of Atlanta changes. Left behind are children, spouses, lovers, and friends faced with renegotiating their lives - the hedonism of the sixties and the urgency of the civil rights movement at the citys doorstep. With Visible Empire, Hannah Pittard "brings her kaleidoscopic perspective to a catastrophe on an epic scale" (Los Angeles Times) . Captivating and ambitious - and inspired by true events - this is a story of race, class, power, privilege, and, ultimately, of promise and hope.