“Don’t aim to fix people. Fixing seems so permanent, so absolute. Like there’s no room for error. Aim to make things better.
This is THE LINE. The most quoted line, by far. And wow, I just love Cal’s parents. They’re messy and immature and real, but at times like this I was able to show the kind of support that’s made Cal into the confident, clear-headed person he is at such a young age.
When I first started drafting this book, Cal’s parents felt like cardboard cutouts—what I mean is that they were really one-dimensional. But I got to build out so much of their stories through researching what the original astronaut families went through. So many early astronaut wives experienced anxiety and depression, and they were thrust into a spotlight that they never asked for. Getting to modernize this in a world where the astronaut families had a voice and felt like they could use it was really important to me.
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