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North tells the
story of a charged meeting between writer Anne Morrow
Lindbergh, wife to aviator Charles, and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry,
the man whom she felt best understood her work.
Their brief meeting is
the beginning point in a spiral of events and memories that
ultimately make North the story of one woman’s struggle to
orient herself, to reconcile motherhood with work and love with
duty, and to articulate the responsibility of the artist to a
world sunk in war.
In keeping with the
for/word company’s creative technique, North is based in
the historical record. The text is constructed exclusively from
Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s prolific letters and journals, memoirs,
fiction, poetry, and wartime polemics. It also draws from material
written by Charles Lindbergh and by Antoine
de Saint-Exupéry, including his poetic works on flight, his
journals and letters, and his famous children’s book, The
Little Prince. |
