FEMINIST BOOK LOVER SISTERHOOD : "Atmosphere", Taylor Jenkins Reid

BOOK CLUB IN ENGLISH

Welcome to the Feminist English Book Club where we choose a book (written in English by a woman or a queer person) and then discuss it and share our thoughts once we’re together.

This month we have chosen to read: "Atmosphere" by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Here is a pitch of the book :

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.

This book club is open to women who speak fluent English. There will be 10 of us maximum and given the time of the event, you can bring something to eat if you feel like it.

You can order the book at the bookshop by calling them or sending an email ([email protected] or 04.78.29.01.34, estimated delivery is about 10 days).

Looking forward to it,

Isabelle