a Shaft of Light is about nostalgia. Its grander essence tells a story of the dissipation of human synergies in regards to concurrent geopolitical and technological upheavals. The book asks us to look back at the times when the earth faced its biggest loss: dinosaurs. The question is: Are we the next? The book was published few months before the author lost her mother Xiao Ling, her mentors Jean Valentine and Ralph Angel, ensued by the blink of the pandemic.