{"product_id":"mermaids-9780312333942","title":"Mermaids","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMermaids\u003c\/strong\u003e by Dann, Patty. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780312333942.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Mrs. Flax was happiest when she was leaving a place, but I wanted to stay put long enough to fall down crazy and hear the Word of God. I always called my mother Mrs. Flax.\"\n\nSo begins this extraordinary first novel about one wild year in the life of fourteen-year-old Charlotte Flax, when she and her sister Kate move with Mrs. Flax into a sleepy 1960s Massachusetts town. Mrs. Flax is a woman who wears polka-dot dresses and serves hors doeuvres for dinner every night, and Kate is a child who basically wants to be a fish.\nAnd then theres Charlotte, who in Patty Danns hands, is transformed into a young woman of infinite whim and variety. Charlottes main ambition in life is to become a saint, preferably martyred, though shes Jewish. Shes smitten with the shy young caretaker at the convent at the top of the hill. Dann has created a young girl who accepts the unkindness of the mad universe in which shes whirling and takes it on with a savage glee.\n\nCharlotte Flax is like no one you have ever met--and someone you know very well.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Griffin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44781001637941,"sku":"ByrdShop_0312333943","price":91.06,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/ByrdShop_0312333943_ca36fb3e-ee9b-4f7a-8f56-2f4d1d19e0d2.jpg?v=1784465072","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/mermaids-9780312333942","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}