This book club NOW meets one WEDNESDAY each month to talk books, socialize, and kick back with a cold one. Meetings take place at Arbor Brewing Plymouth Taproom located at 777 W. Ann Arbor Trail Plymouth, MI 48170 in Downtown Plymouth.
Books for the current month’s selection may be obtained from the Reader’s Advisory desk on the main level of the Library. New members are always welcome!
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"Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life" by Lulu Miller
Hardcover, 225 pages
Published April 14th 2020 by Simon Schuster
Lulu Miller’s Science-Meets-History Memoir.
"Her life unraveling, a failed suicide attempt, and NPR reporter Lulu Miller finds herself searching for a way out of the chaos of her life. She becomes fascinated with David Starr Jordan, a taxidermist, who spent his life up to then, collecting and labeling fish. He traveled the world to find as many different examples, it was his life's work. A collection he would lose most of in the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco. What fascinated Miller was that he didn't give up, he saved what he could, found a new, secure way of labeling and went on. How could a person be that optimistic?
She started researching his life and found more than she bargained for, Jordan was not quite the upstanding person she originally thought." - Diane S.-Goodreads Reviewer
sensitive subject matter: attempted suicide, white supremacy, eugenics, sterilization
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