The Girl with the Mermaid Hair
Written by Delia Ephron
Narrated by Sarah Drew
3/5
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About this audiobook
Click. Sukie Jamieson takes a selfie after her tennis lesson. Click. She takes one before she has to give a presentation in class. Click. She takes one to be sure there's nothing in her teeth after eating pizza at Clementi's. And if she can't take a selfie, she checks her reflection in windows, spoons, car chrome—anything available, really. So when her mother gives her an exquisite full-length mirror that once belonged to her grandmother, Sukie is thrilled. So thrilled that she doesn't listen to her mother's warning: “This mirror will be your best friend and worst enemy.” Because mirrors, as Sukie discovers, show not only the faraway truth but the truth close up. And finding out that close-up truth changes people. Often forever.
Acclaimed novelist and screenwriter Delia Ephron crafts a powerful novel of truth, beauty, and the secrets about family and friends that lie beneath perfection.
Delia Ephron
Delia Ephron is a critically acclaimed novelist and screenwriter. Her most recent book, Frannie in Pieces, received four starred reviews, was a Book Sense Pick, and was named to the New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age list. She is also the author of Big City Eyes, Hanging Up, and How to Eat Like a Child. Her screenwriting credits include The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, You've Got Mail, Bewitched, Hanging Up, and Michael. She lives in New York City with her husband and their dog, Honey Pansy Cornflower Bernice Mambo Kass.
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Reviews for The Girl with the Mermaid Hair
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I was really worried about what happened to the girl after self-imploding. This is the sort of thing that bothers me: after spending months messing up your own life, how do you recover? She definitely grew and she kind of needed everything to implode for it to happen, but yeah.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5To begin with, I thought that selecting this book may have been a mistake but midway through I became totally engrossed. Sukie is a high-achieving, lonely, beautiful, superficial, obsessive-compulsive teenage girl who surprisingly finds salvation when Trouble comes home.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I thought this book sounded quirky and interesting. While the second half of the book is okay, the first half is pretty painful to get through. This book is definitely not a fantasy at all (for some reason I thought it was) and is more of an over-characterized commentary on teen social disorders. I listened to this on audio book and the audiobook was very well done.Sukie is very, very absorbed in her appearance. She is constantly agonizing over her reflection and taking "selfies" with her camera phone (pictures of her self). She is so absorbed with herself that she doesn't have time for friends, she only has time to be perfect and...lonely. Sukie has a mom as obsessed with her appearance as Sukie is and a dad who is a player, constantly trying to charm women who aren't her mother. As her family disintegrates around her, Sukie is forced to take time to decide what really matters.The first half of this book is a bit bizarre. Probably three-quarters of the text is about Sukie looking at herself, perfecting herself. She is a girl with serious issues, her perfection is more important to her than the people around her. Sukie is obviously intelligent, she is top of her class; but lacks emotional intelligence. Many times you feel like slapping her. At points I was pressed to decide if this was supposed to be a humorous book or if Sukie was just really that clueless.Things change when her mother comes home from the spa with a facelift (she went to get rid of her hideous nose which looked just like Sukie's) and Sukie finds out that her lovable dad is really a scumbag. With no one to turn to Sukie turns to her Grandmother's mirror and her dog for support. The mirror was supposed to be a fantastic element I think, but nothing all that odd or magical ever happens with it. In a bizarre turn Sukie's family is dependent on the dog's opinion of everything to make decisions; this was supposed to be another fantastic element but kind of fell flat for me.Also Sukie spends a lot of time caught in romance novel quality fantasies about her and the quarterback Bobo; that are entirely unrealistic but strange characterizations of how Sukie thinks the ideal relationship would work.Sukie's parents are caricatures of real types of stereotypical characters. As a reader you absolutely want to smack Sukie's mom for being so selfish and for what she has done to Sukie's perception of herself.The second half of the book is more about Sukie's rebellion and her quest to find happiness. It is pretty much your typical teen-trying-to-fit-in type of story. The story ended up a pretty up note. The writing style was fine, nothing spectacular. Overall this was your run of the mill story about a teen trying to find her place in life. The characters are almost clownish in their extremes and you will find yourself hard-pressed to sympathize with Sukie for most of the book. The writing was average and the story okay. Teens who are into these types are stories might dig this book; but beware there isn't much of a fantasy element to this book. I personally won't be checking out any more of Ephron's books.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5What the fuck was the point to this book??