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HOW FAR THE LIGHT REACHES
The Soul of an Octopus meets The Empathy Exams and Long Live the Tribe of the Fatherless Girls.
How Far the Light Reaches is an utterly original, lyrical collection of essays about the ocean and what its creatures can tell us about human empathy and survival. Each essay contains a profile of a marine animal, ranging from rare species that have never been photographed such as the yeti crab to ordinary ones such as the goldfish. In each essay, Imbler investigates the ways different species of marine life demonstrate strength and resilience in order to illuminate and to inspire her own.
"This is a miraculous, transcendental book. Across these essays, Imbler has choreographed a dance of metaphor between the wonders of the ocean's creatures and the poignancy of human experience, each enriching the other in surprising and profound ways. To write with such grace, skill, and wisdom would be impressive enough; to have done so in their first major work is truly breathtaking. Sabrina Imbler is a generational talent, and this book is a gift to us all." ED YONG, New York Times Bestselling author of I Contain Multitudes
A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journalist Sabrina Imbler has always been drawn to the mystery of life in the sea, and particularly to creatures living in hostile or remote environments. Each essay in their debut collection profiles one such creature: the mother octopus who starves herself while watching over her eggs, the Chinese sturgeon whose migration route has been decimated by pollution and dams, the bizarre Bobbitt worm (named after Lorena) and other uncanny creatures lurking in the deep ocean, far below where the light reaches. Fusing genres to create a new kind of essay, Imbler's debut collection weaves the wonders of marine biology with stories of their own family and coming of age, implicitly connecting endangered sea life to marginalized human communities and asking how they and we adapt, survive, and care for each other.
A staff writer at Atlas Obscura, Sabrina Imbler is a mixed Chinese-American queer essayist and a scientific journalist. In April 2020, her first chapbook, Dyke (geology) will be published through Black Lawrence Press. Praised by The New York Times best-selling authors Kristen Arnett and Alexander Chee, Dyke (geology) was awarded the editor's choice for the Fall 2018 Black River Chapbook Competition. A 2019 Margins Fellow at the Asian American Writers Workshop, Imbler received the 2018 Yi Dae Up Fellowship in Nonfiction for the Jack Jones Literary Arts Retreat and the inaugural Jane Hoppen residency at Paragraph. She spoke at the National Association of Science Writers' conference, ScienceWriters2018, on the panel Raising Your Voice: Using Essay Techniques in Science Writing. Her essays and reporting have appeared in various publications, including Catapult, Gay Magazine, Medium, Grist, Audubon, Nautilus, Scientific American, and The Week among others.
"This is a miraculous, transcendental book. Across these essays, Imbler has choreographed a dance of metaphor between the wonders of the ocean's creatures and the poignancy of human experience, each enriching the other in surprising and profound ways. To write with such grace, skill, and wisdom would be impressive enough; to have done so in their first major work is truly breathtaking. Sabrina Imbler is a generational talent, and this book is a gift to us all." ED YONG, New York Times Bestselling author of I Contain Multitudes
A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journalist Sabrina Imbler has always been drawn to the mystery of life in the sea, and particularly to creatures living in hostile or remote environments. Each essay in their debut collection profiles one such creature: the mother octopus who starves herself while watching over her eggs, the Chinese sturgeon whose migration route has been decimated by pollution and dams, the bizarre Bobbitt worm (named after Lorena) and other uncanny creatures lurking in the deep ocean, far below where the light reaches. Fusing genres to create a new kind of essay, Imbler's debut collection weaves the wonders of marine biology with stories of their own family and coming of age, implicitly connecting endangered sea life to marginalized human communities and asking how they and we adapt, survive, and care for each other.
A staff writer at Atlas Obscura, Sabrina Imbler is a mixed Chinese-American queer essayist and a scientific journalist. In April 2020, her first chapbook, Dyke (geology) will be published through Black Lawrence Press. Praised by The New York Times best-selling authors Kristen Arnett and Alexander Chee, Dyke (geology) was awarded the editor's choice for the Fall 2018 Black River Chapbook Competition. A 2019 Margins Fellow at the Asian American Writers Workshop, Imbler received the 2018 Yi Dae Up Fellowship in Nonfiction for the Jack Jones Literary Arts Retreat and the inaugural Jane Hoppen residency at Paragraph. She spoke at the National Association of Science Writers' conference, ScienceWriters2018, on the panel Raising Your Voice: Using Essay Techniques in Science Writing. Her essays and reporting have appeared in various publications, including Catapult, Gay Magazine, Medium, Grist, Audubon, Nautilus, Scientific American, and The Week among others.
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Published 2022-12-01 by Little Brown |