Kathryn Schwille and Jonathan H. Ward talk about their two recent books that center on the search for debris and crew remains from the Columbia space shuttle after it came apart over Texas in 2003, triggering the largest ground search in U.S. history. Schwille’s novel, What Luck This Life, named by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution as one of the best southern books of 2018, explores the disaster’s fallout for a fictional town overwhelmed by the trauma. Ward is the co-author of Bringing Columbia Home: The Untold Story of a Lost Space Shuttle and Her Crew, written with retired shuttle launch director Michael D. Leinbach. It offers an insider’s account of the recovery operations and the emotional response it prompted in those who took part.

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