A review by pgchuis
The Mermaid of Brooklyn by Amy Shearn

3.0

This was an odd sort of book really - very light in many ways, but with an underlying theme of mental illness. I wasn't sure if we were supposed to suspend disbelief about the whole mermaid thing or see it as a coping mechanism. If the former, I don't really like that kind of book, and if the latter, she was a mother of two small children who couldn't remember doing various things or what happened during hours at a time. It was funny in places and very accurate about how toddlers "play" with each other. The ending seemed realistic.