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<description><![CDATA[<a class="highslide" href="https://picture.graycity.net/img/julia-langbein/american_mermaid.jpg"><img src="https://picture.graycity.net/img/julia-langbein/american_mermaid_preview.jpg" class="fr-fic fr-dib" title ="American Mermaid" alt ="American Mermaid"/></a><br//><b>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.</b><br><b>"Brilliantly sharp, funny, and thought-provoking, the gripping story of a woman trying to find her way in our chaotic world." &mdash;Madeline Miller, bestselling author of <i>Circe</i></b><br>Broke English teacher Penelope Schleeman is as surprised as anyone when her feminist novel <i>American Mermaid </i>becomes a best-seller.&nbsp; 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&nbsp;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&nbsp;Penelope&rsquo;s co-writers into...]]></description>
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