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American Mermaid

American Mermaid

Langbein, Julia

Paperback

HumorGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $18.00

ISBN10: 0593470141
ISBN13: 9780593470145
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Feb 27 2024
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.20 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Witty and marvelous(Andrew Sean Greer), this sublime debut (NYTBR) tracks a writer adapting her feminist novel into a screenplay must decide which parts of herself are not for sale in a capitalist world run amok. I've never read anything quite like it, and I loved it (Elizabeth Gilbert).

Broke English teacher Penelope Schleeman is as surprised as anyone when her feminist, eco-warrior novel American Mermaid becomes a best-seller. But when Hollywood insists she convert her fierce, androgynous protagonist into to a teen sex object in a clamshell bra, strange things start to happen. Is Penelope losing her mind, or has her fictional mermaid come to life, enacting revenge against society's limited view of what a woman can and should be?

American Mermaid follows a young woman braving the casual slights and cruel calculations of a winner-take-all society and discovering a beating heart in her own fiction: a new kind of mermaid who will fight to keep her voice and choose her place. Brilliantly sharp, funny and thought-provoking (Madeline Miller), this absolute weirdo masterpiece (Jean Kyoung Frazier) is a shapeshifting novel composed of wildly divergent elements [which] succeeds brilliantly (Tom Perotta).

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