Year of Wonders

by Geraldine Brooks

“Consider changes of day and night ... the fall of leaves and their return to the trees the following spring, the infinite power in seeds ... and then give me a man who sees and experiences these things for the first time, with whom we can still talk—he is amazed and overwhelmed at these miracles.”

For life is not nothing, even to the grieving. Surely humankind has been fashioned so, otherwise how would we go on?