The main character came about because I went back to my own family history and found my grandfather’s grandmother, who was 18 in the summer of 1878. What if you were someone who wanted to be involved in that, to be an astronomer, but had no way of bridging that gap? You’re in a frontier town with limited education and limited resources, and you’ve never seen anybody do this thing that you want to do. But I started thinking, what would this look like for people who were already in the West? Because the whole story was about people who came from the Eastern intellectual centers to the Western frontier. I was listening to an NPR interview with David Baron about the 1878 eclipse, and it was such a fascinating story, about all these people who converged on Denver and the impact it had for American science. This conversation has been edited for length and clarity.- JKR Where did the idea and characters come from?
I greatly enjoyed reading it and speaking with Eves, who is a professor at Southern Utah University. Utah author Rosalyn Eves had previously published YA fantasy fiction as part of the Blood Rose Rebellion series, so this foray into historical fiction - based on her own family history - breaks new ground for readers 12 and up. How can she stay true to her faith and family while also honoring her love of science and learning? 24) from Penguin Random House’s “Knopf Books for Young Readers” imprint, “ Beyond the Mapped Stars” is the story of a young LDS woman in pioneer Utah whose heart is telling her she’s supposed to become an astronomer, but whose family and church are telling her to get married and curtail her education. So it was incredibly refreshing recently to hear about a new Knopf young adult novel that ticks so many boxes for my readers: Mormonism, feminism and American history.Ĭoming Tuesday (Aug.
(RNS) - Authors and publicists contact me pretty often to pitch new books, and most of those pitches are blanket emails from people who don’t read this column or know its audience. “Beyond the Mapped Stars” by Rosalyn Eves.
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