EAN: 9780385550017

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A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR • Sublime. —New York Times Book Review • A brilliantly funny debut novel that follows a writer lured to Los Angeles to adapt her feminist mermaid novel into a big-budget action film who believes her heroine has come to life to take revenge for Hollywood's violations. Brilliantly sharp funny and thought-provoking the gripping story of a woman trying to find her way in our chaotic world. —Madeline Miller bestselling author of Circe Broke English teacher Penelope Schleeman is as surprised as anyone when her feminist novel American Mermaid becomes a best-seller. Lured by the promise of a big payday she quits teaching and moves to L.A. to turn the novel into an action flick with the help of some studio hacks. But as she's pressured to change her main character from a fierce androgynous eco-warrior to a teen sex object in a clamshell bra strange things start to happen. Threats appear in the screenplay siren calls lure Penelope’s co-writers into danger. Is Penelope losing her mind or has her mermaid come to life enacting revenge for Hollywood’s violations? American Mermaid follows a young woman braving the casual slights and cruel calculations of a ruthless industry town where she discovers a beating heart in her own fiction a mermaid who will fight to move between worlds without giving up her voice. A hilarious story about deep things American Mermaid asks how far we’ll go to protect the parts of ourselves that are not for sale.

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