{"product_id":"9780593470145","title":"American Mermaid","description":"\u003cb\u003eA MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR • \"Sublime.\" —\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\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, 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?  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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 hero who fights to keep her voice and choose her place. 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 |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2024-02-27","offer_id":44663154475263,"sku":"9780593470145","price":24.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_37b22a8e-56ad-4008-938a-530fe71dfbb5.jpg?v=1704581355","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9780593470145","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}