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World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments

byAimee Nezhukumatathil

Aimee Nezhukumatathil uses World of Wonders to investigate in Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments through a carefully framed biographical portrait. Moving between close detail and context, the book explains the forces surrounding its subject and connects them to the connected fields of biography & autobiography and literary collections. The result avoids a single easy lesson, emphasizing instead how circumstances, institutions, and individual choices interacted over time. World of Wonders leaves readers with key context and a clear view of the human stakes involved.

Publisher

Milkweed Editions

Publication date

Sep 08, 2020

Format

Print edition

Pages

184

ISBN

9781571313652