Everything you need to understand or teach The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert.
The Signature of All Things is a sweeping generational novel by writer Elizabeth Gilbert. In this novel, Alma Whittaker is the unattractive daughter of an adventurous botanist who had set out to be better than his father before him. Alma has inherited her father’s love of botany, but lacks his sense of adventure. Alma spends most of her life in seclusion on the family estate, unmarried and alone. However, after...