A review by albernikolauras
How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler

informative reflective medium-paced

4.25

A memoir that uses sea creatures as framing and metaphor. This is a lovely memoir that freely winds between life experiences and facts on the sea creatures the chapter references. Imbler's writing can lean a tad overly metaphorical, but the audiobook made this barely an issue. Imbler's chapters are more like essays exploring different aspects of themselves and their lives than a chronological memoir, which I felt worked perfectly for the format and the discussions they wanted to have.

Essays cross subjects like race, gender, queer romance, and complicated parents.

My favorite essays were "Starving Octopus" and "We Swarm."
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