Nezhukumatathil takes us in to her childhood world and shows us life through the eyes of that little girl. Each story is a carefully crafted gem in which the personal and the natural history are woven together, to create a loving portrait of her family. Nezhukumatathil has written a timely story about love, identity and belonging. Within two pages, nature writing feels different and fresh and new. This book is like the moment when you go to a familiar outside place and suddenly you see some amazing thing you had never expected. I thought this was going to be another earnest tome of nature writing.But within a few lines of the first essay in this book it is clear that Aimee Nezhukumatathil is giving us more than that, much more. This charmingly illustrated collection of nature essays is more than it might appear to be at first glance.
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