About the Book: Everything the Light Touches: A Novel
In Everything the Light Touches we meet many travellers: Shai, a young Indian
woman who journeys to Indias northeast and rediscovers, through her encounters
with indigenous communities, ways of living that realign and renew her. Evelyn,
an Edwardian student at Cambridge who, inspired by Goethes botanical writings,
embarkson a journey seeking out the sacred forests of the Lower Himalayas.
Linnaeus, botanist and taxonomist, who famously declared "God creates; Linnaeus
organizes" and led anexpedition to Lapland in 1732. And Goethe himself, who
travelled through Italy in the 1780s, formulating his ideas for a revelatory
text that called for a re-examination