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[quote=Anonymous]Jesmyn Ward's Men We Reaped is mostly memoir, but also discusses larger issues of race and poverty in Gulf Coast Mississippi. I also recently enjoyed Why Fish Don't Exist, by Lulu Miller. It's about the life of biologist David Starr Jordan, who collected and named thousands of species of fish and was the first president of Stanford. She's prompted by her own experience of loss, and finds inspiration in Jordan's tenacity after an earthquake destroyed his collection of glass-jarred preserved species. There's interesting material about the history of natural science, especially taxonomy, but she also learns about Jordan's dark side, including his advocacy of eugenics and possible involvement in an actual murder, and she discusses experiences from her own life and how her ideas and feelings affect how she views the topic and how they are changed by what she learns. [/quote]
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