The Flight Attendant

by Chris Bohjalian

Elena didn’t cook much, but she had used cumin just enough to know that the stench could be either.

I love cumin!

the girls were still in middle school. She went on and on about how much she loved the foam and fizz of canned beer, and how popping the top turned her on. Whispered to Cassie that it got her hot.

???

when she’d come to the room and found that Alex had brought a little arm candy from the airline upstairs.

Sentence structure is confusing

A part of her viewed the location of Ani’s firm as one more small, horrid joke the universe was playing on her: sending the daughter of a drunk

She considers herself the victom even though she is a middle aged woman

Akvavit in Stockholm.

Our midsummer toast was aquivit last night.

Methyl iodide. For years she had thought it was a stroke.

Look up

Good Lord, half of America was pretty sure their own president was a Russian puppet.

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If any patch of sand in the world was capable of creating another world war, she believed, it was Syria.

Hm

But the Syrian skies were crowded, and the refugee crisis had the West on the edge.

Yes

But it was the chemical weapons that caused voters in places like Munich and Manchester and Minneapolis to pay attention.

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It was the videos of the children choking to death and the adults vomiting and frothing at the mouth. If you want to get the attention of the White House, kill children with sarin. Send it via a surface-to-surface missile or drop it from a MiG.

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Villa Borghese,

We had our going away party there! Beautiful

a smart girl is nobody’s pushover and nobody’s foe. A smart girl is both sword and smile.

Hm

Had Enrico’s uncle under-charged the top round she’d loaded into the magazine?

what does this mean under charged?