Ann Claycomb. (2017). The Mermaid's Daughter: A Novel. Unabridged HarperAudio.

Ann Claycomb. 2017. The Mermaid's Daughter: A Novel. HarperAudio.

Ann Claycomb, The Mermaid's Daughter: A Novel. HarperAudio, 2017.

Ann Claycomb. The Mermaid's Daughter: A Novel. Unabridged HarperAudio, 2017.

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     Ann Claycomb's fiction has been published in American Short Fiction, Zahir, Fiction Weekly, Brevity, Hot Metal Bridge, The Evansville Review, Title Goes Here, and other publications. She has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has an MFA in fiction from West Virginia University.

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A modern-day expansion of Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid, this unforgettable debut novel weaves a spellbinding tale of magic and the power of love as a descendent of the original mermaid fights the terrible price of saving herself from a curse that has affected generations of women in her family.

Kathleen has always been dramatic. She suffers from the bizarre malady of experiencing stabbing pain in her feet. On her sixteenth birthday, she woke screaming from the sensation that her tongue had been cut out. No doctor can find a medical explanation for her pain, and even the most powerful drugs have proven useless. Only the touch of seawater can ease her pain, and just temporarily at that.
Now Kathleen is a twenty-five-year-old opera student in Boston and shows immense promise as a soprano. Her girlfriend Harry, a mezzo in the same program, worries endlessly about Kathleen's phantom pain and obsession with the sea. Kathleen's mother and grandmother both committed suicide as young women, and Harry worries they suffered from the same symptoms. When Kathleen suffers yet another dangerous breakdown, Harry convinces Kathleen to visit her hometown in Ireland to learn more about her family history.
In Ireland, they discover that the mystery—and the tragedy—of Kathleen's family history is far older and stranger than they could have imagined. Kathleen's fate seems sealed, and the only way out is a terrible choice between a mermaid's two sirens—the sea, and her lover. But both choices mean death...

Haunting and lyrical, The Mermaid's Daughter asks—how far we will go for those we love? And can the transformative power of music overcome a magic that has prevailed for generations?

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     January 30, 2017
     The tale of the Little Mermaid may be well-known, but don’t look for the Disneyfied version in Claycomb’s fine debut. Here, the story swirls around Kathleen Conarn, a young student learning opera at conservatory. She’s not just any music student, but an amazing soprano from a family of musical talents (her Irish-born father, Robin, is a famous composer). Kathleen has always experienced extreme pain piercing the bottom of her feet and, strangely, the only thing that temporarily soothes her is seawater. She feels a strong connection to the sea, though her mother drowned herself in Ireland when Kathleen was just a baby. When it turns out that the women in Kathleen’s family have had a history of suicidal acts near the sea for more than a few generations, the situation begins to smell fishy, and Kathleen’s girlfriend, Harry (short for Harriet), wants to take her to Ireland to see if they can uncover some truth about Kathleen’s family history and her suffering. Claycomb structures the book into three acts, like an opera, and deftly switches between Kathleen’s and Harry’s voices—punctuated by Robin’s “Composer Notes”—to create the effect of singers baring their souls. Written with attention to musicality and the murmuring backdrop of the incessant ocean, this inventive story captures the mystery, tragic loss, and beauty of Hans Christian Andersen’s original mermaid tale while thoughtfully and passionately updating it.

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   • content: This little mermaid is not Disney's, nor is she Hans Christian Andersen's. She's the protagonist of Ann Claycomb's clever updating of the classic story. Terrific performances by multiple narrators capture Claycomb's intriguing version, which features Kathleen, a brilliant soprano from a musical family. When Kathleen experiences excruciating pain in her feet and throat, her only respite comes when she immerses her feet in the sea--even though the sea is the means her mother, and generations of her female relatives, have used to commit suicide. Alternating between Kathleen; her best friend, Harry; her Irish father; voices from the past; and whispers from the ocean that only Kathleen can hear, the narrators deliver this engaging, sometimes chilling, always magical retelling of the age-old tale. S.J.H. © AudioFile 2017, Portland, Maine
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     January 1, 2017
     Self-styled drama queen, Kathleen's phantom pain in her feet and mouth is anything but artifice; it is the same kind of inexplicable, excruciating pain that drove her mother to suicide. The only thing that affords Kathleen relief is immersion in water, preferably the sea, though it is the sea that generations of women in her Irish family, which seems to be cursed, have chosen as their means of suicide. Now, on a vacation trip to Florida with her girlfriend, Harry, she begins hearing mysterious voices from the sea calling, Come home. Come home. Angrily denying their summons, she returns home with Harry to Boston, where Kathleen suffers a debilitating attack that leaves her hospitalized. Harry and Kathleen's father agree that an end to her pain might be found if she is taken to Ireland. But will it? Claycomb's fine first novel is told from multiple points of view, even that of mermaids, for, yes, the novel is a loose retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale The Little Mermaid. And, like its source, it is numinous and lovely.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2017, American Library Association.)

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Kathleen has always been dramatic. She suffers from the bizarre malady of experiencing stabbing pain in her feet. On her sixteenth birthday, she woke screaming from the sensation that her tongue had been cut out. No doctor can find a medical explanation for her pain, and even the most powerful drugs have proven useless. Only the touch of seawater can ease her pain, and just temporarily at that.
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