The Signature of All Things: A Novel

“You see, I have never felt the need to invent a world beyond this world, for this world has always seemed large and beautiful enough for me.

duplicitous

“The beauty and variety of the natural world are merely the visible legacies of endless war.”

vitriolic.

zoetic.

She could almost hear her mind pacing within her skull, caged and bothered, and she felt the weight of all the years she had yet to live, bearing down upon her with heavy menace.

“the signature of all things”—namely, that God had hidden clues for humanity’s betterment inside the design of every flower, leaf, fruit, and tree on earth. All the natural world was a divine code, Boehme claimed, containing proof of our Creator’s love.

contrivance,

ebullience