Title: Too much detail, too little McPhee
Product review: I was really excited to sit down with this, but I came away pretty unimpressed. This doesn't really match up to other classic McPhee writings. It's too focused on cataloging every mention of shad in American history, to the point of boredom. There are a few nice vignettes of shad fishermen and fish scientists, but they are brief, and they don't make up the narrative arc of the story as so many other McPhee writings do.If you're really into fish, you're going to like this. But unlike other McPhee books, it didn't draw me in when I wasn't interested in the subject. It's good writing, just not presented in an interesting way.
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