Together, Right Now

In Fadeeva’s visually lush, expansive meditation on simultaneity and shared existence, opening domestic scenes remind readers that “Right now, you are reading this book.... someone is eating breakfast.... someone is falling asleep.... all at the same time, there is day and night, summer and winter, fire and ice.” A bravura series of immersive environments follow, rendered in vivid splashes of color, evocative textures, and often playful collaged elements. In the same moment, tourists stretch their hands into the air to snap photos of the Sphinx, an unhoused person sleeps in a graffitied alley, and a community gathers to dance in bright sunlight. For those beginning to sense that there’s a vast world beyond their own doorstep, this philosophical work affirms how lives occur contemporaneously, “together, right now.” Characters are portrayed with various skin tones. Ages 3–7. (Jan.)