The novel unfolds as a race against the clock. Stationed in Marseilles, skirting the Vichy regime, and back-channeling money and visas around the ever-nearing threat of the Nazis, Varian is responsible for the safety of thousands. In the novel, Varian, an American journalist, works for the Emergency Rescue Committee (ERC) evacuating artists and intellectuals from Europe during the second World War.
The Flight Portfolio is a riveting fictional story of a real person, Varian Fry.
She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and children, and is at work on a new novel.How do you assign a price to a human life? Are some lives worth more than others? In a world that is on the verge of collapse, do the rules of the living apply? In her second novel, The Flight Portfolio, Julie Orringer explores these questions. She is the winner of the Paris Review’s Plimpton Prize and has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Cullman Center at the New York Public Library, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, the MacDowell Colony, and Yaddo. Her stories have appeared in numerous anthologies, including The Granta Book of the American Short Story and The Scribner Anthology of American Short Fiction. Knopf, and her books have been translated into twenty languages. All of Orringer’s work has been published by Alfred A. The Flight Portfolio is the inspiration for the Netflix series Transatlantic, which airs April 7, 2023. Julie Orringer is the author of three award-winning books: The Invisible Bridge, a New York Times bestselling novel How to Breathe Underwater, a collection of stories and The Flight Portfolio, a novel about Varian Fry, the New York journalist who went to Marseille in 1940 to save writers and artists blacklisted by the Gestapo.
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