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My Life in Sea Creatures
A young queer science writer’s reflections on identity and the ocean
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A beautiful blend of memoir and oceanography that explores the ocean's depths and many of the big questions—about identity, the nature of work, the pull of family—facing young people today.
AMAZON BEST BOOK OF DECEMBER
A TIME MUST-READ BOOK OF THE YEAR
LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNER
A young queer science writer on some of the ocean's strangest creatures and what they can teach us about human empathy and survival.
'A miraculous, transcendental book' ED YONG
'An astonishing debut' GUARDIAN
As a mixed Chinese and white non-binary writer working in a largely white, male field, science journalist Sabrina Imbler has always been drawn to the mystery of life in the sea, 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. My Life in Sea Creatures weaves the wonders of marine biology with stories of their own family and coming of age, implicitly connecting endangered sea life to marginalised human communities and asking how they and we adapt, survive and care for each other.
This far-reaching, unique collection shatters our preconceptions about the sea and what it means to survive.
'Astounding' PHILIP HOARE
'A revelation' ISABELLA TREE
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Reviews for My Life in Sea Creatures praise Sabrina Imbler's debut as an impressive blend of science writing and personal narrative. Critics highlight Imbler's adeptness in describing sea creatures with originality and poeticism, linking them to human experiences and emotions. The book is noted for its candid exploration of identity through a marine biology lens, offering profound insights into empathy and survival. Reviewers describe it as an empowering and astonishing work that combines memoir and nature writing with a unique, inventive style.
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ISBN: 9781784743956
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 08 December 2022
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Chatto & Windus
Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 27.0mm
Width: 144.0mm
Height: 222.0mm
Weight: 392g
Pages: 272
About the Author
Sabrina Imbler is a writer and science journalist living in Brooklyn. Their chapbook Dyke (geology), was published by Black Lawrence Press, and was selected for the National Book Foundation Science + Literature Program. They are a staff writer for Defector, a worker-owned site, where they cover creatures and the natural world. Their essays and reporting have appeared in the New York Times, the Atlantic, Catapult and Sierra, among other publications.
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