Join us to discuss "World of Wonders" by Aimee Nezhukumatathil. Reserved copies will be available starting 2/24 at the lobby holds shelf.
As a child, poet Aimee 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. 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. "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." Even in the strange and the unlovely, Nezhukumatathil finds beauty and kinship. Warm, lyrical, and gorgeously illustrated by Fumi Nakamura, World of Wonders is a book of sustenance and joy.
"And so a book that in less skillful and honest hands might have been yet another “book about nature” becomes something much richer and deeper. Anyone who ever felt small and shy, like they didn’t quite fit in, will find a reflection in these thoughtful stories. —James Rebanks, Review for New York Times.
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