Book Description
Home in Brooklyn, Cal has everything: a best friend, a gigantic social media platform, and an upcoming internship at Buzzfeed. But when his father is chosen to be an astronaut on Orpheus V, NASA’s first mission to Mars, his life is upended and he’s forced to move to Texas so his father can train at the space station.
Cal is sure he’ll be miserable and that his followers won’t care about life in Texas. Then he meets Leon, the son of another astronaut on the mission. Cal and Leon have an intense connection he’s never felt before. And his social media platform has quadrupled between StarWatch, the reality tv show capturing the astronaut families’ lives, and America’s obsession with this second age space race.
Cal finally feels like he’s found his place in the world. Until a jet with the astronauts crashes and an antenna that was needed for the mission explodes. Orpheus V is in trouble of being defunded and Cal’s life is on the brink of being put on hold, unless Cal can take everything into his own hands and not lose track of what means the most.
The Gravity of Us is a contemporary YA novel perfect for fans of Adam Silvera and Shaun David Hutchinson.