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nancypolo 's review for:
The Signature of All Things
by Elizabeth Gilbert
Elizabeth Gilbert used intensive research to reveal an imperfect human heart as an unexpected species of rare plants. Alma Whitaker is a frustrated and frustrating heroine, who tramples through the complicated undergrowth of 18th-century women. An awkward and often graceless journey unpacks a misogyny propagated as much by the women it thwarts, as the men who profit from, as well as those who flounder in its detritus. A masterfully written document of the squandered potential of generations of intelligent women, reared in a world that promises them insanity, unfulfilled ambition and heartbreak. And yet they persisted.