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.
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