In 1845 Nantucket, a young Quaker woman defies her community's expectations to pursue astronomy while navigating a forbidden interracial romance.
In 1845 Nantucket, a young Quaker woman defies her community's expectations to pursue astronomy while navigating a forbidden interracial romance.
It is 1845 and Hannah Gardner Price has lived all twenty-four years of her life according to the principles of the insular and rigid Nantucket Quaker community in which she was raised, where simplicity and restraint are valued above all, and a woman's path is expected to lead to marriage and motherhood. But up on her rooftop each night, Hannah pursues a very different and elusive goal: discovering a comet and thereby winning a gold medal awarded by the King of Denmark, something unheard of for a...
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Central forbidden interracial romance with themes of attraction and sexual repression
No violence depicted
No profanity present
No substance use depicted
No LGBTQ+ representation
Central Quaker community with themes of faith, restraint, and spirituality
No magic or witchcraft present
No occult content present
Themes of women's rights, racial tension, and abolitionist sentiments
No self-harm or suicide depicted
Societal constraints, racial prejudice, and systemic limitations on women
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