Imbler is [...] a gifted science and nature writer, capable of describing sea creatures with knowledge, originality and supple poeticism -- Bidisha Mamata * Observer *
Imbler is a terrific talent... with brutal candor and elegant metaphor, [My Life in Sea Creatures] reveals the gap between where we are today and a truly inclusive and connected world. In so doing, it also threads the loophole, weaving the outlines of a future where art and science amplify one other * Science Magazine *
This is a miraculous, transcendental book... To write with such grace, skill, and wisdom would be impressive enough; to have done so in their first major work is truly breathtaking. Sabrina Imbler is a generational talent, and this book is a gift to us all -- ED YONG, New York Times Bestselling author of I Contain Multitudes
How do we place our selves in the natural world? What are the costs and gains of our attachment to it? Where would you put Sabrina Imbler's astounding book on the shelf? In a separate section, marked: Awe and Wonder -- PHILIP HOARE, author of New Statesman Book of the Year Albert & the Whale
It's a marvel - a beautiful, stirring exploration of the human condition, and the webs and patterns of life that miraculously resonate with it, all the way from the ocean. To find the conundrums of human sexuality and identity reflected back at you by a jellyfish is nothing short of a revelation. Reading this book was an entrancing, provocative, unforgettable experience -- ISABELLA TREE, author of Wilding - the Return of Nature to a British Farm
By way of an exploration of the diverse wonders of marine biology, Imbler reconstructs with raw openness the intensity of their experiences of being a teenager, of coming out, and of gender and racial prejudice * Literary Review *
A delicious balance of the zoological and the personal. Imbler manages to gaze both inward to the self and outward to the strange selves of the creatures in the world's waters -- ROWAN HISAYO BUCHANAN, prize-winning author of Starling Days and Harmless Like You
A luminous interweaving of the human and the non-human, My Life in Sea Creatures is an ingenious book that shows, with a glittering skill, how the precious life around us enriches our world and our ways of living. This is nature writing with an open and daring heart -- SEAN HEWITT, author of All Down Darkness Wide
Imbler pulls off an impressive feat: a book about the majestic, bewildering undersea world that also happens to be deeply human * Vogue US *
Sabrina Imbler writes with incredible curiosity, compassion, and wit. This is a book that asks us to care not simply for one another, but for creatures far distant from us-for the sea, the land, and the worlds we make together -- JESSICA J. LEE, author of Two Trees Make A Forest
Compelling, distinctive and enthralling, Sabrina Imbler has found a whole new way to help us think about and care about the deep and interweaving curiosities of human life and sea life. Popsci meets queer memoire, with brave, illuminating and unexpected results -- HELEN SCALES, author of The Brilliant Abyss
Imbler's ability to balance illuminating science journalism with candid personal revelation is impressive, and the mesmerizing glints of lyricism are a treat. This intimate deep dive will leave readers eager to see where Imbler goes next * Publishers Weekly *
A superb must-read... [a] collection of fascinating essays [which] explores the wonders of rivers and oceans in the light of the writer's own life * Tablet *
Compulsively readable, beautifully lyric, and wildly tender... A breathtaking, mesmerizing debut from a tremendous talent -- KRISTEN ARNETT, New York Times bestselling author of Mostly Dead Things and With Teeth
[This book] marks the arrival of a phenomenal writer creating an intellectual channel entirely their own, within which whales and feral goldfish swim by the enchantment, ache, and ecstasy of human life -- MEGHA MAJUMDAR, New York Times bestselling author of A Burning
