Atmosphere: A Love Story
Taylor Jenkins Reid's Atmosphere follows Joan Goodwin, a reserved astronomy professor, into NASA's first class of women astronauts in the early 1980s, where the pull of space and an unexpected love with a fellow candidate rearrange everything she thought her life would hold. Historical fiction with a sapphic heart and a countdown ticking underneath.
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Before Joan Goodwin fills out the NASA application that upends her life, she's on a dark lawn with her niece Frances, naming stars. Joan is an astronomy professor at Rice, content and careful and a little walled-off, and she loves the sky the way some people love a faith they can practice alone. Reid lets you sit with that woman a while before the advertisement arrives, the one seeking women scientists for the space shuttle program. When Joan applies, it reads less like ambition than like a door she hadn't noticed she'd been standing beside her whole life.
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