I really liked this! Some of the metaphors worked better than others, but overall I thought it worked really well, and I liked the sea creature parts just as much as the memoir parts. Since I'm also a queer mixed race person with a white dad, a lot of the essays hit home for me. I relate so much to some of these experiences - like the observation that people assumed she was her dad's wife and not her daughter (I didn't realize that was a common thing!!). It wasn't perfect, but it was an interesting, thought-provoking book with some cool facts about sea creatures.