jessica cen’s Reviews > Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life > Status Update

the "dandelions" chapter felt so quietly wholesome to me 🥺🌼 amidst all the chaos and heaviness in the book, it felt like a gentle reminder that resilience and beauty can exist in things people overlook or dismiss.

reading about the eugenics movement is genuinely horrifying because it shows how easily people can disguise cruelty as "science" or "progress." the idea that human beings could be ranked by worth — and that entire groups of people were treated as disposable because of it — is deeply disturbing. it's one of those parts of history that reminds me how dangerous dehumanization becomes when it's backed by authority.