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

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

3.5

Having a biology degree, the revelation about fish wasn’t a surprise and I don’t think it hit the way the author was intending. I also had to keep reminding myself that it wasn’t written for people with a biology degree. But the history was fascinating and the correlation with the past and the author’s own life was also engaging. I didn’t know anything about David Starr Jordan and so everything about him was a surprise.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism

Moderate: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, and Medical trauma

Its not on the list so including here that there is a lot of discussion of eugenics and forced sterilizations. David Starr Jordan was apparently a huge proponent and financial supporter of the eugenics movement.