Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Steph's BOOK OF THE YEAR pick! From Steph: I absolutely adore this book and it will certainly be one that lives with me for years to come.  Equal parts endearing and heartbreaking, this one will pull at literally ALL of your heartstrings.  A must read!   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