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

I cannot stop evangelizing about this book. I have purchased well over a dozen copies as gifts. The writer is so incredibly generous with their journeys of self-discovery. And the parings with the stories of marine life are like parings of great wines and fine chocolates. They absolutely enhance each other. While many (most) of the topics are difficult, somehow at the end, you feel hopeful (for the memoir parts at least – the destruction to the natural world seems to march on relentlessly.) You cannot read this and not come out the other side a better person.