American Mermaid

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Author(s)\Editor(s): Langbein, Julia – – Binding: QUALITY PAPERBACK BOOKSYearMonthDay of Publication: 20240227Standardized Book Category: Humorous – GeneralLanguage: \n \n EnglishPage Count: \n \n 00336Publisher Marketing: \n \n \”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).