num_pages: 368
description: A adventure set in the late 19th century about science love and finding your place in the world.Seventeen-year-old Elizabeth Bertelsen dreams of becoming an astronomer but she knows such dreams are as unreachable as the stars she so deeply adores. As a Mormon girl her duty is to her family and in a not too far away future to the man wholl choose to marry her.When she unexpectedly finds herself in Colorado shes tempted by the total eclipse of the sun thats about to happenand maybe even meeting up with the female scientists shes long admired. Elizabeth must learn to navigate this new world of possibility: with her familial duties and faith tugging at her heartstrings a new romance on the horizon and the study of the night sky calling to her she cant possibly have it allcan she?
language: English
title: Beyond the Mapped Stars
publisher: Knopf