American Mermaid

Name: American Mermaid
Brand: Vintage / Doubleday
SKU: 9780593470145-PRUSDTR-US
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Julia Langbein (Author) ... more

Edition: US - Paperback / softback (9780593470145)

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English • Age Adult - Adult

336 pages • 5.25 x 8.0 x 0.7 in

Approx. weight: 0.51 lb

Publication date: 27 Feb,2024

Barcode: 9780593470145 • Vintage / Doubleday

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By: Julia Langbein

"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).