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NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY ESQUIRE AND BOOKPAGE Figuring explores the complexities of
love and the human search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of several
historical figures across four centuries-beginning with the astronomer Johannes Kepler  who
discovered the laws of planetary motion  and ending with the marine biologist and author Rachel
Carson  who catalyzed the environmental movement. Stretching between these figures is a cast of
artists  writers  and scientists-mostly women  mostly queer-whose public contribution have
risen out of their unclassifiable and often heartbreaking private relationships to change the
way we understand  experience  and appreciate the universe. Among them are the astronomer Maria
Mitchell  who paved the way for women in science  the sculptor Harriet Hosmer  who did the same
in art  the journalist and literary critic Margaret Fuller  who sparked the feminist movement 
and the poet Emily Dickinson. Emanating from these lives are larger questions about the measure
of a good life and what it means to leave a lasting mark of betterment on an imperfect world:
Are achievement and acclaim enough for happiness? Is genius? Is love? Weaving through the
narrative is a set of peripheral figures-Ralph Waldo Emerson  Charles Darwin  Elizabeth Barrett
Browning  Herman Melville  Frederick Douglass  Nathaniel Hawthorne  and Walt Whitman-and a
tapestry of themes spanning music  feminism  the history of science  the rise and decline of
religion  and how the intersection of astronomy  poetry  and Transcendentalist philosophy
fomented the environmental movement.

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