Orbital by Samantha Harvey is a luminous meditation on time, gravity, and the fragile miracle of life on Earth. As six astronauts orbit the planet, their physical distance offers piercing clarity—on love, memory, mortality, and the tenuous threads that bind us. With language as precise as it is poetic, Harvey weaves a quiet, expansive novel that contemplates the sublime beauty of our world from above, and the emotional constellations we carry within. A philosophical tour de force that floats weightlessly between the cosmic and the intimate.
