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Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life by Lulu Miller
85 reviews
bi_n_large's review
4.5
Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Suicide attempt, Racism, Ableism, Forced institutionalization, and Medical trauma
Moderate: Murder, Death, Rape, Physical abuse, Infidelity, and Child death
okarenhelena's review
4.25
Moderate: Murder, Death, Child death, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, Racism, Torture, Hate crime, Forced institutionalization, Confinement, and Antisemitism
Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Ableism, Alcohol, Infidelity, Mental illness, Rape, and Lesbophobia
apworden's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Ableism, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt
Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Classism, Mental illness, Murder, Racism, and Rape
starrynight's review
2.25
Graphic: Death, Murder, Racism, and Animal cruelty
meliacoletta's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Suicidal thoughts
Moderate: Self harm, Medical trauma, and Racism
Minor: Car accident
anagrace's review
5.0
in "why fish don't exist", the author searchs for meaning in life, since the "we are all meaningless and unimportant in the face of the universe" approach isn't exactly working for her.
she turns to david starr jordan, a prolific taxonomist who seems to go unaffected by the hardships and setbacks in life, and who keeps going on the impossible task of finding order in a world reigned by chaos.
in this journey, she discovers many qualities of jordan's she wished to have, but also some extremely dark aspects of his biography, which include eugenics. here, we are warned about the dangers of seeing others as unimportant, and perhaps of putting too much importance on ourselves, even when we don't realize and are adamantly agaisn't it.
in the end, she finds a way of dealing with the indifference of the universe by relying on uncertainty, and on the relationships we build with one another.
we matter to each other, so we matter. period.
plus: we learn a lot about the history of taxonomics, and david starr jordan's role in it, and it's truly fascinating.
Moderate: Ableism and Racism
it gives an history on eugenics, therefore containing mentions of racism and ableismcaseywithabook's review
4.0
Minor: Racism and Murder
emhunsber's review
3.75
Graphic: Ableism, Abortion, Alcohol, Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Suicidal thoughts
Minor: War, Vomit, Violence, Toxic relationship, Terminal illness, Suicide, Stalking, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Self harm, Religious bigotry, Rape, Racism, Pregnancy, Physical abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, Misogyny, Miscarriage, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Infidelity, Infertility, Homophobia, Hate crime, Grief, Gore, Gaslighting, Forced institutionalization, Fatphobia, Excrement, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, Death, Confinement, Colonisation, Child abuse, Car accident, Body horror, Blood, Biphobia, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Ableism
cboll's review
4.5
Graphic: Suicide attempt
Moderate: Racism and Medical trauma
empathephant's review
5.0
Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Ableism, Racism, Mental illness, and Forced institutionalization
Moderate: Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Xenophobia, and Confinement
Minor: Self harm, Rape, Abandonment, Animal death, Animal cruelty, War, Child death, and Police brutality
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