A review by aardwyrm
The Book of Eels by Patrik Svensson

informative reflective sad slow-paced

3.5

Lots of good, even great natural history wraps around a personal narrative, with varying degrees of success. I definitely enjoyed the anecdotes about eels and the scientists who studied them more than the bits where eels are sort of a metaphor for the author's relationship with his dead father,  but you can't take a metaphor for a relationship with a dead father away from somebody, I suppose.
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