#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK • From the 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. The stunning hardcover of Atmosphere features beautiful endpapers
and a premium dust jacket! “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
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Library 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.
