San Antonio author Isa Arsén will launch her debut novel 'Shoot the Moon' at Nowhere Bookshop on Oct. 10 at 6 p.m.
Science and art might seem opposites, but San Antonio author Isa Arsén deftly combines them in her debut novel,, a period tale of a young NASA secretary who works her way into the ranks of the Apollo engineers who send 6 million-pound rockets into space.
Music made with computers and stories woven from human imagination are similar, Arsén said during a phone interview from her San Antonio home. “Principles of orchestration, of pacing, of timing, of tone, how to balance what you’re trying to say implicitly versus explicitly, it’s all very similar, It’s just in a different language.”frames the story of fictional Annie Fisk, a physics graduate who is relegated to a secretarial position at NASA in the 1960s, when gender discrimination was the norm — particularly in the sciences.
All the elements of the story to unfold already have appeared: Fisk’s earthy nature, the moon’s elusive mystery and the pain of yearning to reach things that seem achingly distant.Though a native Virginian, Arsén often visited New Mexico and grew to love the arid western desert. Her grandmother’s house in Santa Fe plays a significant role in the book, as does San Antonio where Fisk attended college at the fictional St. Christopher the Martyr, based on the University of the Incarnate Word.
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