It’s a busy, complex life, and she uses plants and animals to reflect on these varied experiences, and to make sense of them. After a lifetime of moving, she finds a place to call home. She has close friends, she finds love, and she raises a family. As a woman, and as the daughter of a Filipina mother and Indian father, she experiences hate.
We see her grow up: she regularly moves with the changes in her parents’ jobs, and later moves with her own changes in employment. Each individual piece is named after a specific element of nature, but these essays are not solely textbook chapters on flora and fauna – they are about Nezhukumatathil herself.
This book is short, as are the pieces within it: the slim 160-page book contains 31 essays. The essay collection World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments is the first, and hopefully not the last, by Guggenheim- and NEA-winning poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil.
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