Thalia Book Club: Colum McCann's TransAtlantic

Though he published his first story collection in 1994, National Book Award–winning Irish novelist Colum McCann catapulted into American readers' esteem with the kaleidoscopic Let the Great World Spin (2009). His follow-up, TransAtlantic, spans even more times and places, as it tells tales of slavery, democracy and record-setting airplane flights.