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

4.0

When Curtis Sittenfeld tells you to read a book you read the book. It’s partly a biography of taxonomist David Starr Jordan who discovered and identified more fish than anyone and lived a complicated life. It’s partly Miller’s memoir about her mental health, the mistakes she has made and her search for meaning. And it’s partly a natural world adventure story. It’s a book of chaos and order that spoke to my existential angst. The ending somehow manages to unravel the whole book and make you look at it anew. This is a book for readers of Orlean, Roach and Krasnostein, readers who like their non-fiction to be deeply interesting and hard to classify while still resonating.