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Orbital by Samantha Harvey

Trade Paperback – Grove – October 2024 – 207 pages

Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men traveling through space.  Selected for one of the last space station missions of its kind before the program is dismantled, these astronauts and cosmonauts—from America, Russia, Italy, Britain, and Japan—have left their lives behind to travel at a speed of over seventeen thousand miles an hour as the earth reels below.

Their experiences of sixteen sunrises and sunsets and the bright, blinking constellations of the galaxy are at once breathtakingly awesome and surprisingly intimate.

A slender novel of epic power and the winner of the Booker Prize 2024.