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Jana Riess: New Y.A. novel explores faith, feminism — and astronomy — in early Mormonism

SUU professor’s new book, “Beyond the Mapped Stars,” comes out this week.

(Al Hartmann | The Salt Lake Tribune) In this file photo, the moon slips toward total eclipse as it comes up over the canyon wall with the upside down sombrero rock formation just outside Mexican Hat, Utah. A new young adult novel focuses on a Latter-day Saint woman in pioneer Utah who yearns to become an astronomer.