A review by siphonophorae
Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life by Lulu Miller

2.0

Any parallels between Why Fish Don’t Exist and Svensson’s Book of Eels end as quickly as they begin. In blending descriptions of her personal life and David Starr Jordan’s, Miller disengages the reader from both. As a fish taxonomy obsessive, this should be the perfect book for me; the fact that I struggled to finish its 200 pages signifies a failure of the writer. Lulu Miller is quite promising as a writer and I do anticipate she will go far. I just don’t think this book deserves to accompany her.