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Small Bodies of Water

By: Nina Mingya Powles
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Home is many people and places and languages, some separated by oceans.

Where is the place your body is anchored? Which body of water is yours? Is it that I've anchored myself in too many places at once, or nowhere at all? The answer lies somewhere between.

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 collection of 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 lyrical, 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.

©2021 Nina Mingya Powles (P)2021 Canongate Books Biographies & Memoirs Botany & Plants
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Great memoir, shame about the dull voice

The memoir itself is great, but I couldn’t listen to her voice. Tried several times to ignore it, but I found she lacked expression and she sounded like she was reading to herself. Very irritating.

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