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American mermaid
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First edition.
"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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Barcode | Status / Due Date |
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| Avon Free Library | FIC LAN (Text) Adult Fiction |
52113300583752 |
Checked out 06/12/2023 |
| Cordelia A. Greene Library - Castile | FIC LANGBEIN (Text) Adult Fiction |
52136000272996 |
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| Geneva Public Library | FIC LAN (Text) First Floor New Books |
52118301202583 |
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| Victor Farmington Library | LAN (Text) Adult New Materials |
52128301049546 |
Checked out 06/24/2023 |
| Wadsworth Library - Geneseo | FIC LAN (Text) Adult New Fiction |
52150300627296 |
Checked out 06/23/2023 |
| This copy is new and can only be picked up at this library. | |||
| Walworth-Seely Public Library | FIC Langbein (Text) Adult New Materials |
52129301018275 |
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| Warsaw Public Library | FIC LAN (Text) Adult Fiction |
52151300380142 |
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