Atmosphere: A GMA Book Club Pick: A Love Story

Description

A #1 New York Times bestseller and Good Morning America Book Club Pick, Atmosphere is an epic historical novel from Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones & The Six. Set against the backdrop of NASA’s 1980s space shuttle programme, it is a story about ambition, identity, friendship and the extraordinary lengths we go to live and love beyond our limits.

Joan Goodwin has been fascinated by the stars for as long as she can remember. Thoughtful and reserved, she is content with her life as a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University and as an aunt to her young niece, Frances.

Everything changes when Joan sees an advertisement seeking the first women scientists to join NASA’s space shuttle programme. Chosen from thousands of applicants in the summer of 1980, she begins training at Houston’s Johnson Space Center alongside an exceptional group of aspiring astronauts.

Among them are pilots, scientists and engineers who gradually become unlikely friends as they prepare for the possibility of travelling into space. For Joan, the experience opens the door to a passion and a love she never expected, forcing her to reconsider what she believes about herself and her place in the universe.

Then, during a mission in December 1984, everything changes in an instant.

Fast-paced and emotional, Atmosphere combines the excitement of the space programme with an intimate story about ambition, connection and the transformative power of love.