4.5/5

Wow. I picked this up for the #TransRightsReadathon after one of my favorite nonfiction book reviewers mentioned it in a post highlighting trans and non-binary nonfiction pieces to pick up. 

How Far the Light Reaches is part memoir, part academic piece stemming from a thesis on sea creatures. 

I think the combination was successful, but do think that a few of the academic parts were a bit too long or didn't connect well to the the memoir piece it was paired with. I found myself drifting into focusing on other things instead of paying attention to the story. 

I highly recommend this one on audio and can we talk about this cover?? Amazing. 

A memoir and academic piece that needed to be written at and the author knocked it out of the park.