The Fiction Forum Book Club

Name: The Fiction Forum Book Club
Start: 2025-08-13T18:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-08-13T19:00:00-04:00
Location: 248 N. Main Street, Mooresville, NC, United States, North Carolina 28115

Schedule

Wed Aug 13 2025 at 06:00 pm to 07:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

248 N. Main Street, Mooresville, NC, United States, North Carolina 28115 | Mooresville, NC

Welcome The Fiction Forum! We will meet regularly at 6pm on the second Wednesday of the month. Mark yourself interested or going on the Facebook event page to get a reminder and updates about this book club!
The Fiction Forum is our general fiction book club offering readers the opportunity to engage with stories from a variety of genres and perspectives.
This month we will be discussing Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid. The next read will also be announced at this meeting.
#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.
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.