![]() ![]() ![]() Amelia, a strong, smart woman in a time when women have no voice, no property, and no agency of their own, she decides – after sending Lyman on his way – to make her way to New York and negotiate with Barnum. Barnum dispatches his partner, Levi Lyman, to Maine to talk to the “mermaid” and convince her to become one of Barnum’s spectacles. Living in a small seafaring Maine town, most of her neighbors are respectful of Amelia’s – the name her husband gave her – privacy, but rumors have a way of spreading this time, they spread all the way to New York, and to the ears of none other than The Greatest Showman himself, P.T. That’s the beginning of the story in Christina Henry’s newest fairy tale for young adults and grownups, The Mermaid. ![]() Years later, the sea takes him away from her. The Mermaid, by Christina Henry, (June 2018, Berkley Publishing Group), $16, ISBN: 9780399584046Ī mermaid walks out of the sea to live with a man she’s fallen in love with. ![]()
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