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In a Stalker’s Sights…unless they can stop him.


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A delightful story of a love that defies time


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He’s a murderer and believes he’s the most evil creature on earth.


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A Valentine’s Day promise sixteen years in the making…


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An outcast finds a dying man who changes her life.


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He’s already lost one woman he loved…he’s not about to lose another.


American Mermaid
Julia Langbein

Doubleday
April 2023
On Sale: March 21, 2023
336 pages
ISBN: 0385549679
EAN: 9780385549677
Kindle: B0B54GQ2JD
Hardcover / e-Book
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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.

"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 Circe

Broke English teacher Penelope Schleeman is as surprised as anyone when her feminist novel American Mermaid becomes 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?

American Mermaid 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 without giving up her voice. A hilarious story about deep things, American Mermaid asks how far we’ll go to protect the parts of ourselves that are not for sale.

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