Hannah is a loner on an island full of Quakers. She spends her nights sweeping the skies for a comet, and her days attempting to keep house for her father, who is rarely at home. It's really Isaac, a student that she takes on, who helps Hannah to see the drabness and unhappiness of her life.
Good things:
*Hannah and Isaac are both believable characters who I loved.
*I felt that the ending was very beautiful.
*The resolution of Hannah's relationship to her sister-in-law is also lovely.
Bad things:
*Hannah's religious 'crisis' is never resolved.
*I was regularly angered by treatment that Hannah received from her father and Dr. Hall. Dr. Hall just creeped me out.
So, while reading The Movement of the Stars, I was also reading [b:Flight Behavior|13438524|Flight Behavior|Barbara Kingsolver|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1352212134s/13438524.jpg|18945788] and [b:Calling Me Home|15793184|Calling Me Home|Julie Kibler|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1359803797s/15793184.jpg|21515148]. It was odd, because there were quite a few similarities in these three books. Of the three, The Movement of the Stars was the biggest page-turner.
*All three dealt with racial tensions, TMOTS and CMH were both in a romantic context.
*All three dealt with breaking free from families and expectations placed upon women. (Not that I'm surprised, a lot of good 'chick lit' has this theme)
*None of the love stories worked out.
*FP and TMOTS both entail a woman making a contribution to science.
*All three have at least one scene in a church (although the difference between the churches is stark)
Out of the three, I would recommend Calling Me Home the most.