Why Fish Don't Exist

by Lulu Miller

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Miller's unclassifiable hybrid of biography, memoir, and popular science follows a Stanford ichthyologist obsessed with order, while Miller herself wrestles with finding meaning in chaos. A short, strange, brilliant book.

Published:: 2020
Pages:: 240

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Why Fish Don't Exist is recommended in the "Empty the Cup" chapter. Holiday writes "I don't think I've ever read anything like it" — a story about a fish scientist, taxonomy, finding order in life, and a broken relationship, all in 250 pages.

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