Christopher’s Reviews > World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments > Status Update

I just read a somber and sobering tale of an octopus. Nezhukumatathil has quite the way with words. Each essay is filled with so much substance, sweeter than the cara cara oranges she writes about, brighter than the firefly glow she describes as becoming increasingly rarer, and greater than the stench of the corpse flower she waited in line for hours to personally witness and appreciate.

I am noticing a theme in many of these stories: hiding.