Mermaids

About this book

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.

Subjects

• fiction
• fiction, coming of age
• fiction, family life, general
• fiction, general
• massachusetts, fiction
• mermaids
• mothers and daughters
• mothers and daughters, fiction
• teenage girls