Taylor Jenkins Reid says Stargazing with her daughter inspired “atmosphere” (exclusive)

Between the blue original flight that recently carried Katy PerryThe Gayle King and others to space, and Astronauter Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams’ delayed return to earth under the spacex crew-9 missionThe cosmos is in the Zeitgeist. And Taylor Jenkins Reids new novel, Atmospherewill only continue the trend.

Against the background of the 2010 Space Officer Program, the book Joan Goodwin, a physics and astronomy professor presented the opportunity for a lifetime follows: to join one of the first NASA missions that sent female astronauts into space.

But despite the book outside this world plot, it was affected by very down-to-earth moments that the best-selling author shared with his 9-year-old daughter, Lilah.

“Atmosphere Pressed me to learn about astronomy and go out and look up in the night sky, “Reid tells a function in this week’s print edition.” There is something really close to me for me when it comes to standing in my garden and looking up and seeing Orion’s belt … It gives such a beautiful sense of how the world turns in both a literal way and a metaphorical way. “

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“I’m really happy to say that my child has hanged me and do it with me too and can now discover some constellations just at her eye,” the author adds. “It just feels like a huge gift that this book has given me.”

For Reid, Mastermind behind the best -selling novels that Daisy Jones & The SixThe The seven men to Evelyn Hugo and Carrie Soto is backCreating their books has always been a family business. Her screenwriter Make Alex, whom Reid met while working in casting, has long been her biggest supporter. And their family also forms a de facto feedback group for the author.

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“He doesn’t write novels, but he still understands the structure of a romance, and so I bounce all my ideas from him,” she says. Lilah, an avid reader, also helps.

“She knows all my stories. She has not read them, but I have told them all to her as stories about bedtime,” Reid says. “Since she is very curious, she helps me too. I’m talking about a problem I have. I come down to the dinner table from my office, and I say: ‘Oh, I can’t find out this, and she will ask questions, and she will say:’ Well, can you do it or it. ”

“I am very enjoyed in this house, with people who give a lot of attention to me, trying to figure out these things,” Reid adds. Sometimes it even means getting the kind of advice that may not sound like a compliment at first redness.

“(Lilah) told me that she suspected that I was not the best writer in the world: that I was probably not the worst writer in the world either, and that I was in between, and I should be quite happy about it,” says Reid.

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“I took a minute and I was like,” you’re absolutely right. “I mean, maybe all authors should really strive to understand that we are not the best in the world, adds the author.” She is always there to give me a good dose of perspective. “

Creating their latest novel and its strengthening protagonist gave Reid a new vision as well, especially when it comes to the stars.

“Writing the book made it very difficult for me to ever take it for granted again,” she says. “My hope is that there will be some people who feel the reverence I know and that Joan is feeling.”

Atmosphere Meet the shelves on June 3 via Ballantine Books and are now available for pre -order, where books are sold.