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

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

Sabrina Imbler does an incredible job of weaving together nature writing, animal factoids, and personal experiences. I cried about sturgeon, I went down internet rabbit holes looking for videos of weird crabs, I felt everything so deeply. This book is a treasure.

Imagine having the power to become resilient to all that is hostile to us. Confinement, solitude, our own toxic waste. Salt, waves, hundred-pound sturgeon that could swallow us whole. Imagine the freedom of encountering space for the first time and taking it up. Imagine showing up to your high school reunion, seeing everyone who once made you feel small, only now you’re a hundred times bigger than you once were. (20)

Oases here, where so few things are certain, inevitably blink on and off. But life always finds a place to begin anew, and communities in need will always find one another and invent new ways to glitter, together, in the dark. (112)