T.J. Newman wrote Falling while working as a flight attendant.

“That’s when I knew I had a story,” Newman tells EW.

“Because I had to figure out what the ending would be.”

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Author T. J. Newman and the cover of ‘Falling’.Simon & Schuster

Oxygen masks not included.

“Being a flight attendant is like being a professional people-watcher,” she says.

A profession that, for Newman, proved highly successful.

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Fallingis available on July 6.

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