Jess Frobisher is a botany professor at the local university. Her husband, Liam, works for a space tourism company called Spaceco, which has just become front-page newsafter an accident. A husband-and-wife filmmaking team approaches Liam about making a Spaceco documentary. Hoping to salvage the company’s reputation, Liam agrees, allowing them access to his homelife. Jess soon becomes a focus of their film, even as --- or perhaps because --- she is excluded from her husband’s darkest secrets. GOD IS AN ASTRONAUT unfolds through a series of e-mails from Jess to her colleague Arthur, away on sabbatical. He is a safe correspondent, removed from the maelstrom, but their relationship is freighted by some secrets of its ownthe details slowly revealing themselves in this debut of masterful storytelling.