Lulu Miller looks for direction in the biography of a scientist who studied fish, only to encounter his troubling legacy.
The appeal is the changing relationship between the person asking questions and the subject meant to supply answers. Scientific classification becomes entangled with the desire for certainty. Choose this for nonfiction that connects an intellectual investigation with a personal search, and allows admiration to give way to harder judgement.
WHO IS IT FOR?
For readers interested in reported lives, ideas and the forces shaping contemporary experience.
