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My Life in Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler
emotional
informative
reflective
slow-paced
4.0
It's another nature memoir. I love this random genre!
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"My Life in Sea Creatures" by Sabrina Imbler is a non-binary coming of gender tale combined with fish facts. Given fish have a tendency to randomly change gender they're a pretty good analogy. Imbler tends to anthropomorphisise a little which I know makes all the science people mad but it just made me want to cry about octopi! There are lots of interesting facts and I thought the way the essays tied each sea creature into an aspect of Imbler's life was really well done.
Trigger warning for the essay "Beware the Sand Striker" as it is heavy on the sexual assault content and I found Imbler's tone weirdly flippant when talking about rape. There are also mentions of eating disorders and racism.
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"My Life in Sea Creatures" by Sabrina Imbler is a non-binary coming of gender tale combined with fish facts. Given fish have a tendency to randomly change gender they're a pretty good analogy. Imbler tends to anthropomorphisise a little which I know makes all the science people mad but it just made me want to cry about octopi! There are lots of interesting facts and I thought the way the essays tied each sea creature into an aspect of Imbler's life was really well done.
Trigger warning for the essay "Beware the Sand Striker" as it is heavy on the sexual assault content and I found Imbler's tone weirdly flippant when talking about rape. There are also mentions of eating disorders and racism.
Graphic: Rape and Sexual assault
Moderate: Eating disorder and Racism