Orbital
by Samantha Harvey · 2023
Literary Fiction · ranked #101 in category
Winner · The Booker Prize, 2024
Six astronauts orbit Earth every ninety minutes, watching sixteen sunrises a day, as storms and fires rage below and one crew member waits for news of her dying mother. Harvey's Booker Prize-winning novella asks what it means to look at the Earth from outside it — and whether distance creates clarity or only the illusion of it.
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