#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 Journal Chicago Public Library She Reads 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.
