{"product_id":"9780385549677","title":"American Mermaid","description":"\u003cb\u003eA MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR • \"Sublime.\" —\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review • \u003c\/i\u003eA 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"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 \u003ci\u003eCirce\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBroke English teacher Penelope Schleeman is as surprised as anyone when her feminist novel \u003ci\u003eAmerican Mermaid \u003c\/i\u003ebecomes 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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmerican Mermaid\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003ewithout\u003c\/i\u003e giving up her voice. A hilarious story about deep things, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Mermaid\u003c\/i\u003e asks how far we’ll go to protect the parts of ourselves that are not for sale.","brand":"Julia Langbein","offers":[{"title":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |  Hardback  |  2023-03-21","offer_id":44151392403711,"sku":"9780385549677","price":37.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/products\/BNCImageAPI_2d07df4b-ad1a-401a-a32f-206e666875da.jpg?v=1674173198","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9780385549677","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}