Name: Atmosphere
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Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid
ISBN: 9780593983577

Type

Physical Book

Author

Taylor Jenkins Reid

Publisher

Random House Us

Year

2025

Language

English

Pages

352

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

15 x 23 cm

ISBN13

9780593983577

Atmosphere

Taylor Jenkins Reid (Author) · Random House Us · Paperback

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Synopsis "Atmosphere"

GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK • From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones & The Six comes an epic new novel set against the backdrop of the 1980s space shuttle program about the extraordinary lengths we go to live and love beyond our limits.

“Thrilling . . . heartbreaking . . . uplifting . . . the fast-paced, emotionally charged story of one ambitious young woman, finding both her voice and her passion.”—Kristin Hannah, author of The Women

“NASA? Space missions? The ’80s? This is a collection of all the things I love.”—Andy Weir, author of Project Hail Mary and The Martian

Joan Goodwin has been obsessed with the stars for as long as she can remember. Thoughtful and reserved, Joan is content with her life as a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University and as aunt to her precocious niece, Frances. That is, until she comes across an advertisement seeking the first women scientists to join NASA’s space shuttle program. Suddenly, Joan burns to be one of the few people to go to space.

Selected from a pool of thousands of applicants in the summer of 1980, Joan begins training at Houston’s Johnson Space Center, alongside an exceptional group of fellow candidates: Top Gun pilot Hank Redmond and scientist John Griffin, who are kind and easygoing even when the stakes are highest; mission specialist Lydia Danes, who has worked too hard to play nice; warmhearted Donna Fitzgerald, who is navigating her own secrets; and Vanessa Ford, the magnetic and mysterious aeronautical engineer, who can fix any engine and fly any plane.

As the new astronauts become unlikely friends and prepare for their first flights, Joan finds a passion and a love she never imagined. In this new light, Joan begins to question everything she thinks she knows about her place in the observable universe.

Then, in December of 1984, on mission STS-LR9, it all changes in an instant.

Fast-paced, thrilling, and emotional, Atmosphere is Taylor Jenkins Reid at her best: transporting readers to iconic times and places, creating complex protagonists, and telling a passionate and soaring story about the transformative power of love—this time among the stars.

Taylor Jenkins Reid

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Taylor Jenkins Reid (Acton, Massachusetts; December 20, 1983) is an American writer, television producer, and screenwriter. She primarily writes romance, and her most notable works are The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones & The Six.

She is a fiction writer and essayist, and graduated with a degree in Information Science from Emerson College. Her first novel, Forever, Interrupted, was described as "one of the 11 debuts we loved" by Kirkus Reviews. She currently lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Alex, and their dog, Rabbit.

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