EAN: 9780593470145

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A brilliantly funny and razor-tongued debut which 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. Penelope Schleeman a consistently broke Connecticut high school teacher is as surprised as anyone when her sensitive debut novel American Mermaid-the story of a wheelchair-bound scientist named Sylvia who discovers that her withered legs are the vestiges of a powerful tail-becomes a bestseller. Penelope soon finds herself lured to LA by promises of easy money to co-write the American Mermaid screenplay for a major studio with a pair of male hacks. As the studio pressures Penelope to change American Mermaid from the story of a fierce androgynous eco-warrior to a teen sex object in a clam bra strange things start to happen. Threats appear in the screenplay draft siren calls lure people into danger. When Penelope's screenwriting partners try to kill Sylvia off entirely in a bitterly false but cinematic end matters off the page escalate. Is Penelope losing her mind or is Sylvia among us? American Mermaid follows a young woman braving a world of casual smiles and ruthless calculation where she discovers a beating heart in her own fiction--a creature she'll do anything to protect. By turns both a comic and fabulously insightful tale of two female characters in search of truth love and self-acceptance as they move between worlds without giving up their voices--

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