As the kids of two scientists, reading Greenfieldboyce’s collection of musings felt like another night at the family dinner table: the warmth of the personal, but you’re also going to learn a little something. Her journalistic voice seamlessly layers science-fact with the soft moments of the day-to-day, intriguingly connecting her two world spheres. Equal fascination and reverence is granted whether she is discussing conversations with her children, connections made in shared silence, or the biological make-up of a common flea.
Transient and Strange by Nell Greenfieldboyce, (List Price: $27.99, W. W. Norton & Company, 9780393882346, January 2024)
Reviewed by Morgan Holub, E. Shaver Bookseller in Savannah, Georgia