{"product_id":"american-mermaid-9780593470145","title":"American Mermaid","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"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 \u003ci\u003enot\u003c\/i\u003e for sale in a capitalist world run amok. \"I've never read anything quite like it, and I loved it\" (Elizabeth Gilbert).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBroke English teacher Penelope Schleeman is as surprised as anyone when her feminist, eco-warrior novel \u003ci\u003eAmerican Mermaid \u003c\/i\u003ebecomes 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? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmerican Mermaid\u003c\/i\u003e 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).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Julia Langbein\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/27\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780593470145","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42707009929353,"sku":"9780593470145","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_857a887b-5495-4bb2-9545-56d775208c9b.jpg?v=1719474145","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/american-mermaid-9780593470145","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}