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Reviewed by Sarah Stuart for Readers' Favorite
A Day That God Made by Mike Masi is a true story, although the author refers to himself throughout as “the pilot.” The opening is a dramatic air crash in the frozen wastes of Alaska. Following that, the book reverts to detailing the pilot’s early life: why he became a pilot, and why his only companion is a feral cat he rescued as a kitten too young to do more than suckle. Back in the present, he is flying a six-seater plane that the scattered inhabitants regard as a taxi service. The weather closes in, but not enough for the company to ground its aircraft.
Mike Masi’s true story, A Day That God Made, hooked me at the start with a terrifying airplane crash into the snow. “The pilot,” as Mr Masi refers to himself, is trapped by his cargo of freight loosed from its restraints. Lost miles from his destination in thousands of square miles in an Alaskan winter, he realises deciding to fly, whatever the company said, was the worst decision of his life. The author held me gripped throughout: claustrophobia… a leaking can of soda that soaks him from the waist down bringing a hypothermia attack closer… danger from bears...
The story is interspersed with the activities of others: a man from the village of Yup’ik giving up on his arrival at the airstrip and driving home in his snowmobile and, when Masi's “missing” status is established, the crew of a Coast Guard Sikorsky MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter scrambled, fighting its way to the crash site in the heart of the storm. “The pilot” curses, longs for a cigarette, wonders if hearing a search aircraft come over and fail to see him will drive him out of his mind, and turns to God, as man so often does when He is the only hope left. Undoubtedly one of the best-written and emotive true stories I have ever read. Thank you for sharing, Mr Masi.
