Penelope Schleeman\, a consistently broke Connecticut high school teacher\, is as surprised as anyone when her sensi tive debut novel\, "American Mermaid"&mdash\;the story of a wheelchair-bou nd scientist named Sylvia who discovers that her withered legs are the ves tiges of a powerful tail&mdash\;becomes a bestseller. Penelope soon finds herself lured to LA by promises of easy money to co-write the "American Me rmaid" screenplay for a major studio with a pair of male hacks.
\nAs the studio pressures Penelope to change "American Mermaid" from the story of a fierce\, androgynous eco-warrior to a teen sex object in a clam bra\ , strange things start to happen. Threats appear in the screenplay draft\; siren calls lure people into danger. When Penelope&rsquo\;s screenwriting partners try to kill Sylvia off entirely in a bitterly false but cinemati c end\, matters off the page escalate. Is Penelope losing her mind\, or is Sylvia among us?
\nAmerican Mermaid \;follows a young woman braving a world of casual smiles and ruthless calculation\, where sh e discovers a beating heart in her own fiction--a creature she&rsquo\;ll d o anything to protect. By turns both a comic and fabulously insightful tal e of two female characters in search of truth\, love\, and self-acceptance as they move between worlds without giving up their voices.
\n-from Goodreads
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