![]() Since the beginning of the pandemic, I have had very few moments completely to myself. ![]() Each is wrapped in language that engages so deeply with its own curiosity, and with such a taste for the way certain words move in the mouth, that all we can do is share in the wonder-even taste it, if we dare follow our gasping breath into a repetition of the words that called it forth: “The bibliography of the firefly is a tender and electric dress.” Each essay is structured around a particular wonder: the delicate comb jelly, the sugar-laden cara cara orange, and the corpse flower (which needs no additional adjectives), all make appearances. ![]() The book is as much about color and race in our modern world as it is about gratitude for the smallest and strangest miracles it still manages to hold. ![]() 184 pages.ĪIMEE NEZHUKUMATAHIL'S World of Wonders takes a poetic-encyclopedic approach to memoir. ![]()
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