World of Wonders by Aimee Nezhukumatathil, 165 pages.
This book, by poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil, is described as a series of essays about the natural world and the things we can learn from it. The fact that the author is a poet rather than any sort of naturalist or biologist probably should have been my first hint that this probably wasn't the book that I thought it would be. I had expected a book a little like Braiding Sweetgrass, which I loved. What I got instead was more like a memoir that used various plants and animals as metaphors for things in the authors life, which isn't inherently a bad thing, but the final product was a little too disjointed to be a great memoir either.
Note: The illustrations by Fumi Nakamura are very cool.
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