But no matter where she was transplanted-no matter how awkward the fit or forbidding the landscape-she was able to turn to our world's fierce and funny creatures for guidance. As a child, Nezhukumatathil called many places home: the grounds of a Kansas mental institution, where her Filipina mother was a doctor the open skies and tall mountains of Arizona, where she hiked with her Indian father and the chillier climes of western New York and Ohio. Warm, lyrical, and gorgeously illustrated by Fumi Nakamura, World of Wonders is a book of sustenance and joy.Description: From beloved, award-winning poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil comes a debut work of nonfiction-a collection of essays about the natural world, and the way its inhabitants can teach, support, and inspire us. For it is this way with wonder: it requires that we are curious enough to look past thedistractions in order to fully appreciate the world's gifts. Even in the strange and the unlovely, Nezhukumatathil finds beauty and kinship.
"What the peacock can do," she tells us, "is remind you of a home you will run away from and run back to all your life." The axolotl teaches us to smile, even in the face of unkindness the touch-me-not plant shows us how to shake off unwanted advances the narwhal demonstrates how to survive in hostile environments. Named a "Most Anticipated Book of 2020" by The MillionsĪ Literary Hub "Recommended Climate Read for September 2020"Ī Mpls.St.Paul Magazine Reading Recommendation for Fall 2020įrom beloved, award-winning poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil comes a debut work of nonfiction-a collection of essays about the natural world, and the way its inhabitants can teach, support, and inspire us.Īs a child, Nezhukumatathil called many places home: the grounds of a Kansas mental institution, where her Filipina mother was a doctor the open skies and tall mountains of Arizona, where she hiked with her Indian father and the chillier climes of western New York and Ohio.
A New York Public Library Best Book of 2020Ī Wall Street Journal Holiday Gift Pick for 2020Ī Publishers Weekly "Big Indie Book of Fall 2020"Ī Literary Hub "Most Anticipated Book of 2020Ī Ralph Lauren Summer Reading RecommendationĪ Garden & Gun Summer Reading Recommendation
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