The Audacious Book Club: Bite by Bite by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

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In the opening essay for World of Wonders, her 2020 essay collection, Aimee Nezhukumatathil writes of childhood memories of the catalpa tree, which covered the grounds of Larned State Hospital where her mother worked. Nezhukumatathil and her sister would ride the bus there every afternoon and meet their mother when she was finished for the day. The tre…