4 Reasons Why I Think Everyone Should Read How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
A Book Recommendation
“Trauma is not just a catalyst to regeneration; it is the only catalyst.”
― Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
4 Reasons Why I Think Everyone Should Read How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler is the best book ever written of essays blending personal queer narrative and vivid undersea science.
If you've read it, then you know exactly what I'm talking about.
But if you haven't, here's why:
Reason #1: Sea creatures
Octopus, whales, cuttlefish... each chapter educates and extends metaphors of sea creatures across the author's life and perspective.
Reason #2: Queer LIVING
Sabrina Imbler writes gorgeously on gender, queer love, queer community, and queer adaptation/survival.
Reason #3: Braided narrative
The last essay on explosions of jellyfish queer everlasting is GIVING grand finale resplendence. Unforgettable.
Reason #4: My new favorite book
I could not put down the maritime beauty and lyrical prose of How Far the Light Reaches!
I can't recommend this book enough.
Let me know if you read or have read it, and what you think!
“Almost every system we exist in is cruel, and it is our job to hold ourselves accountable to a moral center separate from the arbitrary ganglion of laws that, so often, get things wrong.”
― Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
“Imagine having the power to become resilient to all that is hostile to us.”
― Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
“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. A dumped goldfish has no model for what a different and better life might look like, but it finds it anyway. I want to know what it feels like to be unthinkable too, to invent a future that no one expected of you.”
― Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
“Feral goldfish are so good at living they have become an ecological menace. Of course, it’s not their fault; goldfish would never have gotten into the river if we hadn’t thought of them as disposable.”
― Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
“But when I think about ponds infested with gallon-big goldfish, I feel a kind of triumph. I see something that no one expected to live not just alive but impossibly flourishing, and no longer alone. I see a creature whose present existence must have come as a surprise even to itself.”
― Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
“I predict I will always be in negotiation with my body, what it wants, and what I want of it.”
― Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
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“What’s left of queerness when it’s not defined by violence endured?”
― Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
“I am an organism like any other, we people and pigeons and bacteria experiencing homeostasis on the sidewalk”
― Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures