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A review by fkshg8465
The Fishermen and the Dragon: Fear, Greed, and a Fight for Justice on the Gulf Coast by Kirk Wallace Johnson
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
sad
tense
medium-paced
4.0
I would’ve easily given this book five stars except that the author lost his way towards the end. He should’ve wrapped it up with what happened with the Vietnamese fishers. Instead, he added a new topic of toxic environmental waste that would’ve been better told as a separate book.
Up until that point, it was pretty riveting and even the epilogue was great to read. But that boy in between that took place many years after the lawsuit against the KKK had no correlation to the clear xenophobia against the Vietnamese. The fact that the factory centered on your second portion was from Taiwan felt completely unrelated given it had nothing to do with xenophobia.
Highly recommend the book anyway. It was almost five stars!, and I really appreciated learning the history of the Southern Poverty Law Center (and was so glad I never donated a penny to it myself).
Up until that point, it was pretty riveting and even the epilogue was great to read. But that boy in between that took place many years after the lawsuit against the KKK had no correlation to the clear xenophobia against the Vietnamese. The fact that the factory centered on your second portion was from Taiwan felt completely unrelated given it had nothing to do with xenophobia.
Highly recommend the book anyway. It was almost five stars!, and I really appreciated learning the history of the Southern Poverty Law Center (and was so glad I never donated a penny to it myself).
Content Warnings
Graphic: Grief, Suicide attempt, Injury/Injury detail, Gaslighting, Cancer, Colonisation, Genocide, Gore, Violence, Alcoholism, Infidelity, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Emotional abuse, Antisemitism, Blood, Bullying, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Hate crime, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Racism, Pregnancy, War, Xenophobia, Racial slurs, Sexual harassment, Stalking, and Terminal illness