num_pages: 224
description: Home is many people and places and languages some separated by oceans.Nina Mingya Powles first learned to swim in Borneo  where her mother was born and her grandfather studied freshwater fish. There the local swimming pool became her first body of water. Through her life there have been others that have meant different things but have still been in their own way home: from the wild coastline of New Zealand to a pond in northwest London.This lyrical collection of interconnected essays explores the bodies of water that separate and connect us as well as everything from migration food family earthquakes and the ancient lunisolar calendar to butterflies. In powerful prose Small Bodies of Water weaves together personal memories dreams and nature writing. It reflects on a girlhood spent growing up between two cultures and explores what it means to belong.
language: English
title: Small Bodies of Water
publisher: Canongate Books Ltd.