Our second #goopbookclub is here. I fell easy for this one. The plot is experimental, sweeping, epic. It’s made up of four linked novellas, spans several generations, and cuts back and forth in time and across India and surrounding regions. It’s driven by love stories of various natures and you keep reading in part to see what will happen to the characters and how all their stories fit together. Will they always struggle, will they find intimacy, joy? Will they find the answers they are looking for? All of the characters live around a tectonically active fault line and have different, significant relationships to science, the natural world, and mysticism. A central question of the book is why did the universe begin—and what’s our purpose in it? Where do our stories begin and end?