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Author Pariat, Janice, author.

Title Everything the light touches : a novel / Janice Pariat.

Publisher New York, NY : HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2022.

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 Thomas ML Adult Fiction  FIC PAR    AVAILABLE  
Edition First HarperVia edition.
Physical Description 491 pages ; 24 cm
Summary Shai is a young woman in modern India. Lost and drifting, she travels to her country's Northeast and rediscovers, through her encounters with indigenous communities, ways of being that realign and renew her. Evelyn is a student of science in Edwardian England. Inspired by Goethe's botanical writings, she leaves Cambridge on a quest to wander the sacred forests of the Lower Himalayas. Linnaeus, a botanist and taxonomist who famously declared "God creates; Linnaeus organizes," sets off on an expedition to an unfamiliar world, the far reaches of Lapland in 1732. Goethe is a philosopher, writer, and one of the greatest minds of his age. While traveling through Italy in the 1780s, he formulates his ideas for "The Metamorphosis of Plants," a little-known, revelatory text that challenges humankind's propensity to reduce plants--and the world--into immutable parts.
Subject Linné, Carl von, 1707-1778 -- Fiction.
Goethe, Johann Caspar, 1710-1782 -- Fiction.
Travelers -- Fiction.
Botany -- Fiction.
Perspective (Philosophy) -- Fiction.
India -- Fiction.
Young women -- India -- Fiction.
Women -- Travel -- Himalaya Mountains.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832 -- Fiction.
Nature fiction.
Historical fiction.