My all-time favorite novel seamlessly weaves six stories of peoples from six different time periods and places and lifetimes all connected by one small thread. A captivating tale of evolving human experience.
“An abyss cannot be crossed in two steps.”
“‘Naive, dreaming Adam. He who would do battle with the many-headed hydra of human nature must pay a world of pain & his family must pay it along with him! & only as you gasp your dying breath shall you understand, your life amounted to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean!’ Yet what is any ocean but a multitude of drops?”
Carissa W Tomas, PhD 