A review by audreybethc
Life on the Rocks: Building a Future for Coral Reefs by Juli Berwald

hopeful informative sad medium-paced

2.5

I read this one for a book club. I did find a lot of the coral information interesting, but I really struggled with the author’s attempts to connect the coral to her daughter’s experience with OCD (hopefully included with her daughter’s  consent) and with the COVID pandemic. Those portions of the text felt very forced, and also very surface level. We never got deep enough into her daughter’s story to engage with it, and the points of connection were a stretch; it just never felt like a successful merging of memoir/narrative non-fiction. I really wanted to love this but it fell short for me. 
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