- Mermen, Fiction, Los angeles (calif.), fiction, Fiction, psychological
Bottoming out after a dramatic breakup, doctoral student Lucy accepts her sister's invitation to dog-sit at her home on Venice Beach for the summer, where she meets an eerily attractive swimmer whose Sirenic identity transforms her understanding of what real love looks like.
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Contemporary, intimate, classical in form and character-led.
- contemporarynostalgic
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Melissa Broder
- First published
- 2018
- Pages
- 288
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, Hogarth
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781408891001
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