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World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments

Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Fumi Nakamura (ill.)

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#3571 of 3,809 books · #1171 in Biography & Memoir

Shortlisted for the Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction (2020).

World of Wonders was a New York Times bestseller. Aimee Nezhukumatathil has had many homes, but wherever she was - however awkward the fit or forbidding the landscape - she found guidance and perspective in nature. The axolotl smiles, even in the face of unkindness; the touch-me-not plant shakes off unwanted advances; the narwhal survives its hostile environment. Even in the strange and the unlovely, Nezhukumatathil finds beauty and kinship. 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. In all those things, it shows that if you listen carefully, if you open your eyes wide, the world is full of wonders.

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Publisher
Souvenir Press
ISBN-13
9781782838913
Topics
Nature and identityMotherhood and heritageWonder and resilience in nature

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