Immortal Gestures Stationery A deal is struck

A deal is struck

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of All the Light We Cannot See

impacting the lives of the Soldier inhabitants

and vampire geneticist Matthew de Clairmont in A Discovery of Witches

THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY

Immortal Gestures Stationery A deal is struckJourneys in the Unspoken There is an old Buddhist adage: the teachings are like a finger pointing to the moon. To achieve enlightenment, you are not supposed to look at the finger. You are supposed to look to the celestial light. I am asking you to look at the finger. The finger is also the moon. A tilted head. A finger to the lips. A wave that could mean emphasis or dismissal. A raised palm of piety and fellowship. Our gestures do not simply point to