![]() ![]() A detailed, sweeping epic of the 19th century and the birth of science, Gilbert’s novel was named a Best Book of 2013 by The New York Times, O Magazine, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, and The New Yorker and was also nominated for the 2014 Carnegie Medal for Fiction. The Signature of All Things spans the life of the fictional Alma Whittaker, a keenly curious and practical amateur botanist who comes of age on her wealthy father’s Philadelphia estate, falls in love, travels abroad, and arrives at a startling understanding of evolution just before Charles Darwin releases his groundbreaking work, On the Origin of Species. It was published by Penguin Random House in 2013, and Gilbert had already established herself on the New York Times bestseller list with her two memoirs, Eat, Pray, Love (2006) and Committed (2010), after garnering critical acclaim for her earlier fiction, biographies, and magazine journalism. ![]() The Signature of All Things is an adult historical novel by American author Elizabeth Gilbert. ![]()
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