Assaulted and left on the cliffs outside of her grim Alaskan fishing village by her abusive, alcoholic uncle, fourteen-year-old Luce expects to die when she tumbles into the icy waters below, but when she instead transforms into a mermaid she is faced with struggles and choices she could never have imagined.
year: 2011
call number/section: 1000
subjects: mermaids and mermen, fiction, supernatural, interpersonal relations, singing