Overview
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY VULTURE AND SHE READS ā¢ āThe female astronaut novel we never knew we needed.āāEntertainment Weekly
June is a brilliant but difficult girl with a gift for mechanical invention who leaves home to begin grueling astronaut training at the National Space Program. Younger by two years than her classmates at Peter Reed, the school on campus named for her uncle, she flourishes in her classes but struggles to make friends and find true intellectual peers. Six years later, she has gained a coveted post as an engineer on a space stationāand a hard-won sense of belongingābut is haunted by the mystery of Inquiry, a revolutionary spacecraft powered by her beloved late uncleās fuel cells. The spacecraft went missing when June was twelve years old, and while the rest of the world seems to have forgotten the crew, June alone has evidence that makes her believe they are still alive.
She seeks out James, her uncleās former protĆ©gĆ©, also brilliant, also difficult, who has been trying to discover why Inquiryās fuel cells failed. James and June forge an intense intellectual bond that becomes an electric attraction. But the relationship that develops between them as they work to solve the fuel cellās fatal flaw threatens to destroy everything theyāve worked so hard to createāand any chance of bringing the Inquiry crew home alive.
A propulsive narrative of one womanās persistence and journey to self-discovery, In the Quick is an exploration of the strengths and limits of human ability in the face of hardship, and the costs of human ingenuity.
This edition includes a bonus chapter.
This book title, In the Quick (A Novel) - 9780525511274, ISBN: 9780525511274, by Kate Hope Day, published by Random House Publishing Group (June 21, 2022) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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