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 pilots Hank Redmond and John Griffin, who are kind and easy going even when the stakes are highest; mission specialist Lydia Danes, who has worked too hard to play nice; warm-hearted 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, everything changes in an instant.
Fast paced, thrilling, and emotional, Atmosphere is Taylor Jenkins Reid at her best: transporting readers to iconic times and places, with complex protagonists, telling a passionate and soaring story about the transformative power of love, this time among the stars.
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 pilots Hank Redmond and John Griffin, who are kind and easy going even when the stakes are highest; mission specialist Lydia Danes, who has worked too hard to play nice; warm-hearted 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, everything changes in an instant.
Fast paced, thrilling, and emotional, Atmosphere is Taylor Jenkins Reid at her best: transporting readers to iconic times and places, with complex protagonists, telling a passionate and soaring story about the transformative power of love, this time among the stars.
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Historical fiction centered on high-profile figures in entertainment, sports, and science has reached millions of readers worldwide through narrative depth and immersive period settings. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo established this signature approach, examining public perception and private identity in mid-century Hollywood.
Taylor Jenkins Reid is an American novelist known for her bestselling works set from the 1950s through the 1990s and beyond, including Carrie Soto Is Back and Atmosphere: A Love Story. Her novels have sold more than 21 million copies worldwide and earned selections from major readership platforms including Reese's Book Club, Read with Jenna, GMA Book Club, Indie Next, Best of Amazon, and Book of the Month.
Born in Ocean City, Maryland, on December 20, 1983, Reid earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Emerson College before pursuing a full-time career as an author. She published her debut novel, Forever, Interrupted, in 2013, followed by contemporary relationship dramas such as After I Do, Maybe in Another Life, and One True Loves. Her career reached widespread recognition as she pivoted toward mid-to-late 20th-century historical fiction, beginning with the publication of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo in 2017.
Following that success, Reid published Daisy Jones & The Six in 2019, which was adapted into a limited television series on Amazon Prime. She continued expanding her fictional focus with Malibu Rising and Carrie Soto Is Back, before authoring Atmosphere: A Love Story, a 1980s-set space thriller centered on a female NASA astronaut. Reid currently resides in Los Angeles with her husband, Alex Jenkins Reid, and their daughter.
Reid's narrative technique frequently utilizes creative structures, such as oral histories, interview transcripts, multi-perspective timelines, and media excerpts, to explore complex character dynamics. Her stories examine the intersection of public renown, personal ambition, secret relationships, and female autonomy. Set across diverse eras ranging from 1950s cinema to 1970s rock music, 1980s athletics, and space exploration, her novels investigate how media narratives shape public memory and personal truth.
3 books in catalog
Historical fiction centered on high-profile figures in entertainment, sports, and science has reached millions of readers worldwide through narrative depth and immersive period settings. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo established this signature approach, examining public perception and private identity in mid-century Hollywood.
Taylor Jenkins Reid is an American novelist known for her bestselling works set from the 1950s through the 1990s and beyond, including Carrie Soto Is Back and Atmosphere: A Love Story. Her novels have sold more than 21 million copies worldwide and earned selections from major readership platforms including Reese's Book Club, Read with Jenna, GMA Book Club, Indie Next, Best of Amazon, and Book of the Month.
Born in Ocean City, Maryland, on December 20, 1983, Reid earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Emerson College before pursuing a full-time career as an author. She published her debut novel, Forever, Interrupted, in 2013, followed by contemporary relationship dramas such as After I Do, Maybe in Another Life, and One True Loves. Her career reached widespread recognition as she pivoted toward mid-to-late 20th-century historical fiction, beginning with the publication of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo in 2017.
Following that success, Reid published Daisy Jones & The Six in 2019, which was adapted into a limited television series on Amazon Prime. She continued expanding her fictional focus with Malibu Rising and Carrie Soto Is Back, before authoring Atmosphere: A Love Story, a 1980s-set space thriller centered on a female NASA astronaut. Reid currently resides in Los Angeles with her husband, Alex Jenkins Reid, and their daughter.
Reid's narrative technique frequently utilizes creative structures, such as oral histories, interview transcripts, multi-perspective timelines, and media excerpts, to explore complex character dynamics. Her stories examine the intersection of public renown, personal ambition, secret relationships, and female autonomy. Set across diverse eras ranging from 1950s cinema to 1970s rock music, 1980s athletics, and space exploration, her novels investigate how media narratives shape public memory and personal truth.
