The men in this novel can seem so horrible as to be made of straw. But this is a small flaw in a fresh and propulsive debut that charts the growing pains of young adulthood
“Mermaids are not born. We are made,” she announces at the start of Jade Song’s fresh and propulsive debut. Ren notes that her own metamorphosis, her own “transcendence” of the indignities of her “short and pitiful life as a human girl”, took place just before an importantReading Ren’s account of her life in Pittsburgh, it is easy to understand why she might yearn to splash away from it all.
The men in this novel can seem so horrible as to be made of straw. But this is a small flaw in a book that enlivens its coming-of-age yarn with a touch of mystery and a twist of myth. “Outwardly, I studied,” says Ren. “Inwardly, I sought the weightlessness of water, to be as liberated as the aquatic beings in my imagination.”
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