Atmosphere

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 and the extraordinary lengths we go to live and love beyond our limits. 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 nieceFrances. That isuntil she comes across an advertisement seeking the first women scientists to join NASAΓÇÖs Space Shuttle Program. SuddenlyJoan burns to be one of the few people to go to space. Selected from a pool of thousands of applicants in the summer of 1980Joan begins training at HoustonΓÇÖs Johnson Space Centeralongside an exceptional group of fellow candidates: Top Gun pilots Hank Redmond and John Griffinwho are kind and easy-going even when the stakes are highest; mission specialist Lydia Daneswho has worked too hard to play nice; warm-hearted Donna Fitzgeraldwho is navigating her own secrets; and Vanessa Fordthe magnetic and mysterious aeronautical engineerwho can fix any engine and fly any plane. As the new astronauts become unlikely friends and prepare for their first flightsJoan finds a passion and a love she never imagined. In this new lightJoan begins to question everything she thinks she knows about her place in the observable universe. Thenin December of 1984on mission STS-LR9everything changes in an instant. Fast-pacedthrillingand emotionalAtmosphere is Taylor Jenkins Reid at her best: transporting readers to iconic times and placeswith complex protagoniststelling a passionate and soaring story about the transformative power of lovethis time among the stars.