Boundless as the Sky

The book ‘Boundless as the Sky’ is written by Dawn Raffel. It is a book of invisible histories beneath the cities we inhabit. The first part of this story is a tale of real and invented cities, some ancient, some dystopian, echoing Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities.

And the second part is based on a true event, the arrival of a ‘roaring armada of goodwill’ in the form of twenty-four seaplanes at Chicago’s ‘century of progress’ by Mussolini’s wingman Italo Balbo on a single day in 1933 at the ‘World’s Fair’.