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Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life by Lulu Miller
90 reviews
craftysnailtail's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Ableism, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Racism, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Medical trauma, and Suicide attempt
alexandryareads's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide attempt
Moderate: Ableism, Racism, Medical content, and Medical trauma
bookbrig's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Ableism
Moderate: Death, Racism, and Suicidal thoughts
Minor: Infidelity and Suicide attempt
readingpicnic's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Ableism, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Medical trauma, and Suicide attempt
Moderate: Homophobia, Racism, and Sexual assault
Minor: Infidelity and Self harm
inthemoonlight's review against another edition
5.0
My only warning would be to look at any trigger warnings if that's something that would impact you. I personally went in blind, not even knowing what it was about, and did not realize how dark things would be. Vital to talk about, but still potentially triggering nonetheless.
Graphic: Ableism, Genocide, Racism, Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, and Suicide attempt
Moderate: Child death, Death, Physical abuse, and Rape
fridayreads's review against another edition
4.0
Moderate: Infidelity, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, and Medical trauma
Minor: Addiction, Death, Homophobia, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Slavery, and Alcohol
whatannikareads's review against another edition
2.75
i’m a mixed bag of emotions about this book. after about halfway through i think the first half of the book was completely unnecessary/a different book altogether. i fell asleep quite a few times during the first half. the second half was much more interesting, but i kept getting whiplash on the organization of it; we kept switching from history to memoir to social science. i don’t feel the memoir section was expanded enough to be super engaging. the connection between the writer and david star jordan, aside from her research of him, felt like a reach. i think if she has developed her story more, or just made it a completely separate book, it could’ve been more enjoyable. the whole book could’ve just been 3 different articles tbh. it felt like reading a really long op-ed and i don’t think ot should’ve been a book tbh.
also again, i don’t know if talking about how shitty his beliefs were in the second half made up for how nicely he was portrayed in the first half?? it was just very clearly not written by a person of color lol.
Moderate: Ableism, Death, Racism, Xenophobia, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail
librarymouse's review against another edition
4.5
Jordan's hands-on malicious acts, like his touring endorsement of eugenics and the possible murder by poison of his benefactor are completely bonkers. I am constantly amazed that people Revere him, while simultaneously understanding, as I, too have been in awe of the young man he once was.
This book breaks down every facet of Jordan, from his political, religious, and social beliefs; to his family life, addressing each idiosyncrasy with data driven research.
Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Genocide, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Gaslighting, and Alcohol
pipn_t's review against another edition
3.0
Graphic: Ableism, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, and Suicide attempt
Moderate: Rape
Minor: Racism
milliemudd's review against another edition
2.75
Graphic: Racism, Suicide attempt, and Murder