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

dark hopeful inspiring medium-paced

4.5

What a beautiful book. We start with the author’s obsession with David Starr Jordan a naturalist responsable for cataloguing a fifth of the worlds fish. Miller is looking for hope in his story of perseverance when his collection is almost destroyed. Instead we find Jordan is no hero he probably murdered someone and fought for eugenics. Miller rises above him in every which way. Also fish do not exist as a biological group. Suck on it Jordan.
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