ATMOSPHERE - Romance Literary Fiction

#1 New York Times Bestseller • Good Morning America Book Club Pick
From the bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones & The Six comes an epic, heart-charged novel set during the height of NASA’s 1980s space shuttle program—a story about ambition, friendship, love, and the courage to push beyond the limits of Earth itself.

Joan Goodwin has always looked up. A brilliant physics and astronomy professor at Rice University, she’s content to teach, to study the stars, and to dote on her spirited niece—until she sees NASA’s call for its first women scientists to join the space shuttle program. Suddenly, Joan is determined to be one of the rare few to reach orbit.

Chosen from thousands of applicants, Joan begins training at Johnson Space Center alongside an unforgettable crew: a daring Top Gun pilot, a quick-witted scientist, a fiercely competitive mission specialist, a warmhearted friend with secrets of her own, and the magnetic engineer who can fix anything—and fly everything.

As they forge bonds under the pressure of grueling preparation, Joan discovers a new passion—and an unexpected love—that reshapes her understanding of her place in the universe. But in December 1984, on mission STS-LR9, one instant will change everything.

Sweeping, propulsive, and deeply human, Atmosphere delivers Taylor Jenkins Reid’s signature magic: transporting readers to iconic moments in time, crafting characters who feel achingly real, and telling a soaring story about how love—and the stars—can change us forever.

Author:  Taylor Jenkins Reid
Pages: 432
File size: 3.16 MB
Book format: PDF