Taylor Jenkins Reid, in conversation with Laura Dave, discusses Atmosphere

Taylor Jenkins Reid, in conversation with Laura Dave, discusses Atmosphere

Taylor Jenkins Reid (Daisy Jones & The Six, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo) discusses her newest novel: Atmosphere with Laura Dave.

By Book Soup

Date and time

Saturday, June 7 · 7 - 8:30pm PDT

Location

First Congregational Church of Los Angeles

540 South Commonwealth Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90020

Refund Policy

Refunds up to 1 day before event

About this event

  • Event lasts 1 hour 30 minutes

NOTE: This is a conversation and Q&A only with no signing to follow. Admission to the event includes a PRE-SIGNED copy of Atmosphere from Taylor!

From the #1 New York Times bestselling 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.

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.


About the authors

Taylor Jenkins Reid is the author of the New York Times Bestselling novels Carrie Soto Is Back, Malibu Rising, Daisy Jones and The Six and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, as well as One True Loves, Maybe in Another Life, After I Do, and Forever, Interrupted. Her books have been chosen by Reese’s Book Club, Read with Jenna, Indie Next, Best of Amazon, and Book of the Month. Her novel, Daisy Jones and The Six, is now a limited series on Amazon Prime. She lives in Los Angeles.

Laura Dave is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of several novels, including The Last Thing He Told Me and The Night We Lost Him. Her novels have sold more than five million copies and have been translated into thirty-eight languages. They've been chosen by Reese Witherspoon’s Book Club, Indie Next, Book of the Month Club, The Richard and Judy Book Club, Best of Amazon, and Best of Apple Books. The Last Thing He Told Me was the Goodreads Mystery & Thriller of the Year for 2021 and is now a series on Apple TV+, co-created by Laura. She resides in Santa Monica, California.

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