The novel got a little bogged down in parts and veered into the unbelievable realm at times but it’s fiction so I was along for the ride. It’s hard to even put this debut novel in a certain genre – it’s a combination of real life, fantasy, family, late life coming-of-age, with some dystopian or fantasy thrown in!! Have I confused you yet? THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST CLEVER USES OF THE BOOK WITHIN A BOOK LITERARY DEVICE THAT I’VE READ!! ![]() 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. Is Penelope losing her mind, or is Sylvia among us?Īmerican 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. When Penelope’s screenwriting partners try to kill Sylvia off entirely in a bitterly false but cinematic end, matters off the page escalate. ![]() Threats appear in the screenplay draft siren calls lure people into danger. ![]() 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.Īs 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. 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. 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
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