Atmosphere

Atmosphere is Taylor Jenkins Reid at her most refined and elemental — a novel about fame, fragility, and the forces we can't see but feel everywhere.

This time, the spotlight doesn't fall on a Hollywood starlet, a tennis player at the top of her game, or a rock band as they rise to stardom. Instead, we follow a quiet, compulsively private woman whose life intersects with the 1980s Space Shuttle program.

It's about the women who suited up, showed up, and found themselves at the forefront of the space race — not just in the cockpit but in their relationships, ambition, and sense of self. Reid gives us a world of capsule interiors and astronaut training days, but the real tension lives in quieter moments: behind closed doors, in the long stretches of waiting that come with chasing something bigger than yourself.

Fans of Malibu Rising or Carrie Soto Is Back will find something quieter here, more interior, but no less affecting. Atmosphere isn't about reinvention, but what's left when everything settles.