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Tea, Michelle

Mermaid in Chelsea Creek

335 pp. | McSweeney's McMullens | May, 2013 | Trade ISBN 978-1-938073-36-6 $19.95
(3) YA During a "passing-out game" blackout, Sophie, a working-class teenager from gritty Chelsea, Massachusetts, envisions a mermaid in the salty muck of the creek who tells the teen that she's destined to save the human race from sadness. In this unconventional coming-of-age novel, Tea's brand of magical realism deftly inverts expectations, endowing the ordinary with magical properties while things typically so are considered unremarkable.
Reviewer: Shara Hardeson

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