Truth in Fiction: an Extraordinary Look at Real Life
5 min readJun 23, 2019
The wife was awakened in the middle of the night and rushed to the kitchen. Investigators were waiting and told her that the plane her husband was piloting went missing off the radar. He, along with all the passengers, perished.
Anita Shreve wrote her novel The Pilot’s Wife in 1998, years before the missing airliner Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.