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Amy Shearn

Autor de The Mermaid of Brooklyn

4 Obras 156 Miembros 13 Reseñas

Obras de Amy Shearn

The Mermaid of Brooklyn (2013) 77 copias
Unseen City (2020) 26 copias
Dear Edna Sloane (2024) 1 copia

Etiquetado

Conocimiento común

Fecha de nacimiento
20th century
Género
female

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I received a free copy of this novel in exchange for my honest review. Jenny Lipkin was a magazine editor. She and Harry had a whirlwind romance that created a five year marriage and two kids. When we meet Jenny, she’s now a stay at home mom with days filled with long walks and daily play dates at the park. One night she calls her husband at work and asks him to bring home milk, he says he’s going to get cigarettes and that’s the last she hears of him.

I enjoy chick lit and Amy Shearn doesn’t disappoint! There were moments when Jenny’s reactions just had me laughing. Her description of Jenny at her worst was pretty understandable. The poor woman was overwhelmed taking care of everything and now Harry’s gone, so the little things he did to help out are gone as well. This was truly a unique and fun novel. I look forward to reading her other published novels.
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sunshine9573 | 9 reseñas más. | Dec 19, 2022 |
Meg Rhys, a self-styled spinster librarian, is asked by an out-of-town visitor in the local history section of her Brooklyn library to find information on his family’s property in Brooklyn. The tenants keep moving out because of unexplained cold drafts and doors and windows that slam shut of their own accord. The thought of a spectral presence interests both Meg, who is still mourning the death of her younger sister, and the information seeker, the attractive (and recently bereaved) Ellis Williams. Could this common interest lead to romance? Meg is of two minds, her intellect says no, but her emotions disagree. Besides, she is worried about finding a new apartment; there is no reason for her to indulge herself in a crush on a stranger from Chicago.

Intertwined with Meg’s story in present day Brooklyn is the harrowing tale an African American girl fleeing the destruction of her orphanage in Manhattan following the 1863 draft riot. Between the two tales are glimpses0 of the two boroughs, past and present and the effects of race, gentrification, destruction and renewal, and the hint of an invisible cloud of witnesses meditating on the changes in their home. It’s a fascinating read.
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MaowangVater | Mar 23, 2021 |
The advert on this book — “sometimes all you need in life is a fabulous pair of shoes” – signaled sassy airport chick lit to me, and so I put off reading the book until I was in the right kind of mood. (That’s not meant as snark. I do love frothy chick lit, when I’m in the mood for a spirited heroine, her quirky best friend, a handsome man, and hilarious antics on the seventy-thousand word path to true love. Sometimes you want that, just like sometimes you want to reread Harry Potter for the millionth time.) But The Mermaid of Brooklyn is not a series of comical misunderstandings and glossy retail therapy on the path to romance.

The Mermaid of Brooklyn is set in a very real Brooklyn. Park Slope moms whisk their babies from baby language classes to expressive fingerpainting. Changing times are bringing her in-laws’ candy gift-basket company to a slow, painful bankruptcy. The city manages to be both glowing with possibility, and summer-sticky.

Full review on my blog
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TheFictionAddiction | 9 reseñas más. | Aug 12, 2020 |
Jenny’s husband has gone missing after telling her he would be making a short stop after work. The horror of it all, that would be for most of us, but for Jenny, not so much.
I really liked this was an excellent. I like Jenny, in some ways her attitude of resignation because of her circumstances, because she could not change it at the time, would perhaps be mine too. She is struggling to make sense of all that she “knows” and is going through a huge range of emotions trying to sort out her predicament – being a “single” mom (missing husband) in New York, with two young kids – when it looks like everyone’s life may be going just hunky-dory when hers is just at the brink of a precipice.
I found this story to be very thought provoking and I felt such a empathy for Jenny trying to re-think life, because don’t we all want to do that sometimes?
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karmakath | 9 reseñas más. | Sep 8, 2014 |

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Obras
4
Miembros
156
Popularidad
#134,405
Valoración
3.8
Reseñas
13
ISBNs
19

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