

Jazz acquires necessary items from her father and from a scientist named Martin Svoboda, but she does not tell them about the illegal sabotage job. When Trond offers to pay more than twice what Jazz owes her father, Jazz accepts the job. He wants to take over their moon-based mining and smelting operations.

One day, while Jazz is delivering contraband to Trond Landvik, a wealthy businessman, Trond says that he wants to hire Jazz to sabotage Sanchez Aluminum. She is aided in this by her friend Kelvin, who lives in Kenya and works for the Kenya Space Program. She works as a courier and also makes money by smuggling contraband into Artemis. Jazz has been trying for years to raise enough money to pay him back. When Jazz was a teenager, she and Ammar had a falling-out when she indirectly caused an accident that destroyed her father’s welding shop. Her father, Ammar Bashara, works as a welder. She and her father moved there from Saudi Arabia when she was six years old. Jasmine “Jazz” Bashara is a 26-year-old woman who lives in Artemis, the moon’s first and only settlement. New York: Crown Publishing Group, 2017.Īrtemis, a novel by Andy Weir, takes place at an unspecified point in the future.

The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Weir.
