From a young girl who struggled to fit in to a young woman with passion and determination who has found her calling, Day took us on a journey through June’s eyes that showed her growth and maturity. I found June’s character development to be the most engaging part of the book. Can she convince James that The Inquiry crew is still alive? Will they be able to figure out the fuel cell problem that James has spent six years working on? And does James have a secret he’s keeping?

There she meets up with her father’s former student, James.

But the relationship that develops between them as they work to solve the fuel cell's fatal flaw threatens to destroy everything they've worked so hard to create-and any chance of bringing the Inquiry crew home alive.Ī propulsive narrative of one woman's 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.Do you think convincing others was difficult because it had been so many years since they had heard from The Inquiry or do you think there were other issues at play? After returning to Earth for a few months, she is given the opportunity to go to the Pink Planet. James and June forge an intense intellectual bond that becomes an electric attraction. She seeks out James, her uncle's former prot g, also brilliant, also difficult, who has been trying to discover why Inquiry's fuel cells failed. 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. Six years later, she has gained a coveted post as an engineer on a space station-and a hard-won sense of belonging-but is haunted by the mystery of Inquiry, a revolutionary spacecraft powered by her beloved late uncle's fuel cells. 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. 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. 'The female astronaut novel we never knew we needed.'- Entertainment Weekly (Must-read books coming out in March)

GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK - A young, ambitious female astronaut's life is upended by a love affair that threatens the rescue of a lost crew in this brilliantly imagined novel 'with echoes of Station Eleven, The Martian, and, yes, Jane Eyre' ( Observer).

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