EAN: 9780385550017

AMERICAN MERMAID - JULIA LANGBEIN KARTONIERT (TB)

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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