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Mermaids

by Patty Dann · December 1, 1967

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Popularity 28

Follows the escapades and odyssey of Charlotte Flax, a fourteen-year-old Jewish girl who yearns to become a saint and who falls in love with the shy young caretaker of a neighborhood convent in her sleepy 1960s Massachusetts town.

FictionMothers and daughtersTeenage girlsFiction, family life, generalMothers and daughters, fictionMassachusetts, fictionFiction, coming of ageFiction, generalMermaids