# How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures - Hardcover

by **Sabrina Imbler** (Author)

**WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE in SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY  
Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award**

One of _TIME_'s 10 Best Nonfiction Books of the Year - A _PEOPLE_ Best New Book - A Barnes & Noble and SHELF AWARENESS Best Book of 2022 - An Indie Next Pick - One of Winter's Most Eagerly Anticipated Books: _VANITY FAIR_, VULTURE, BOOKRIOT

A fascinating tour of creatures from the surface to the deepest ocean floor, inviting us to envision wilder, grander, and more abundant possibilities for the way we live. "A miraculous, transcendental book." (Ed Yong, author of _An Immense World_)

A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journalist Sabrina Imbler has always been drawn to the mystery of life in the sea, and particularly to creatures living in hostile or remote environments. Each essay in their debut collection profiles one such creature, including:

-   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, predatory Bobbitt worm (named after Lorena),
-   the common goldfish that flourishes in the wild,
-   and more.

Imbler discovers that some of the most radical models of family, community, and care can be found in the sea, from gelatinous chains that are both individual organisms and colonies of clones to deep-sea crabs that have no need for the sun, nourished instead by the chemicals and heat throbbing from the core of the Earth. Exploring themes of adaptation, survival, sexuality, and care, and weaving the wonders of marine biology with stories of their own family, relationships, and coming of age, _How Far the Light Reaches_ is a shimmering, otherworldly debut that attunes us to new visions of our world and its miracles.

  

### Author Biography

Sabrina Imbler is a writer and science journalist living in Brooklyn. Their first chapbook, _Dyke (geology)_ was published by Black Lawrence Press. They have received fellowships and scholarships from the Asian American Writers' Workshop, Tin House, the Jack Jones Literary Arts Retreat, Millay Arts, and Paragraph NY, and their work has been supported by the Café Royal Cultural Foundation. Their essays and reporting have appeared in various publications, including the _New York Times_, the _Atlantic_, _Catapult_, and _Sierra_, among others.

**Number of Pages:** 272

**Dimensions:** 0.95 x 8.53 x 5.86 IN

**Illustrated:** Yes

**Publication Date:** December 06, 2022

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