Gillian Burke, biologist and presenter of BBC2's Springwatch and WinterwatchĪimee Nezhukumatathil's World of Wonders is the first book to make me feel like a firefly as much as it reminds me I'm still a black boy playing in Central Mississippi woods. Nezhukumatathil's writing is like coming home. World of Wonders is a thing of wonder, the book that most took me by surprise this year - Jini Reddy, Wainwright Prize-shortlisted author of WanderlandĪ restless search for identity and belonging finds a warm welcome in nature's details. Nezhukumatathil exudes a rare zest for life, and her inherent love for the natural world shines through. James Rebanks * New York Times Book Review *Īn unusual and captivating memoir. It is a very fine book indeed, truly full of wonder.
This book demands we find the eyes to see and the heart to love such things once more. And our lives are impoverished by this process. We are losing the language and the ability to see and understand the wondrous things around us. Nezhukumatathil has written a timely story about love, identity and belonging. Within two pages, nature writing feels different and fresh and new.
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd ISBN: 9781788168915 Number of pages: 192 Weight: 200 g Dimensions: 196 x 128 x 20 mm Edition: Main MEDIA REVIEWS In all those things, it shows that if you listen carefully, if you open your eyes wide, the world is full of wonders. 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. Even in the strange and the unlovely, Nezhukumatathil finds beauty and kinship. The axolotl smiles, even in the face of unkindness the touch-me-not plant shakes off unwanted advances the narwhal survives its hostile environment. a thing of wonder, the book that most took me by surprise this year' - Jini Reddy, author of WanderlandĪimee Nezhukumatathil has had many homes, but wherever she was - however awkward the fit or forbidding the landscape - she found guidance and perspective in nature. It is a very fine book indeed, truly full of wonder' - James Rebanks, author of Pastoral Song 'Within two pages, nature writing feels different and fresh and new.
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