“A truly wonderous essay collection.” -Roxane Gay, The Audacity Read more “A timely story about love, identity and belonging.” - New York Times Book Review “Hands-down one of the most beautiful books of the year.” -NPR Warm, lyrical, and gorgeously illustrated by Fumi Nakamura, World of Wonders is a book of sustenance and joy.Ī Publishers Weekly “Big Indie Book of Fall 2020”
For it is this way with wonder: it requires that we are curious enough to look past the distractions 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. 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. In all those things, it shows that if you listen carefully, if you open your eyes wide, the world is full of wonders.“A poet celebrates the wonders of nature in a collection of essays that could almost serve as a coming-of-age memoir.” - Kirkus ReviewsĪs 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 Mini Nakamura, this book ranges through joy and pain, encountering love, motherhood and heritage, racism and the destruction humans can wreak. The axolotl smiles, even in the face of unkindness the touch-me-not plant shakes off unwanted advances the narwhal survives its hostile environment. In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks and Other AstonishmentsĪ sparkling collection of essays about the natural world, illustrated throughout - a magnificent bestiary, and an unforgettable book of sustenance, resilience and joy.Īimee Nezhukumatathil has had many homes, but wherever she was - however awkward the fit or forbidding the landscape - she found guidance and perspective in nature.
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