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As Jong’s character Isadora Wing observes in How To Save Your Own Life, published in 1977, "Books go out into the world, travel mysteriously from hand to hand, and somehow find their way to people who need them at the times when they need them." Clearly millions of women needed Fear of Flying in the early 1970s.
By early 1975 it had hit number one on the New York Times Best-Seller list. Jong became a high-voltage celebrity, and celebrity would be the target of her deft satire in her second novel, How To Save Your Own Life (1977).
Like Fear of Flying, How To Save Your Own Life is narrated by Isadora, who will also be central to Parachutes & Kisses (1984) and will "author" Any Woman’s Blues (1990), a manuscript brought to print by a fictitious feminist critic after a plane Isadora is piloting disappears mysteriously over the South Pacific.
But in none of these sequels will Isadora be as much of "amanuensis t