A MOSAIC OF WINGS by KIMBERLY DUFFY is a beautifully written book with well defined characters and excellent descriptions, not only of the characters' feelings, strengths and weaknesses, but of the landscape and flora and fauna found in Ithaca New York and Kodaikanal India. The author has done an incredible amount of research, especially into bugs and butterflies, which are Nora Shipley and Owen Epps' area of expertise. She has also researched the time, 1885, and we come across Professor John Comstock and his wife Anna, who were actually teaching at Cornell university at the time.
Lydia and Owen are the top two graduates in entomology and are neck and neck for a scholarship to study for a master's degree.
When the two of them are sent to India, their lives, and their relationships, change, and they each come to realize what is really important in life.
I do not want to tell you any more of the story for fear of spoiling the read for you. I really loved this book and will be reading it more than once. I found it true to life and most inspirational. The Christian message is good and one gets a sense of God's greatness in His creation and in His involvement in people's lives.
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