My Sister Lives in the Sea

Faith Shearin

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Miscellaneous
05 March 2024

Winner of the Leapfrog Global Fiction Prize""Close to perfect, beautifully limpid, but also with great power and that elusive quality of strangeness"" Carnegie Medal Winner - Anthony McGowanThrough the eyes of her protagonist, Hazel Hawthorne, Faith Shearin shows us how one family can endure danger, illness, separation, and grief, using folklore as both escape and salvation.

My Sister Lives in the Sea weaves together folklore and life on a barrier island; the Hawthorne family fights through divorce and loss as Bigfoot lurks nearby.

Mermaids, sleeping sickness, Bigfoot, ghostly ships--this novel-in-stories weaves them all together with the joys and sorrows of the Hawthorne family.

This novel-in-stories is both steeped in fairy tale and firmly planted in the sand at the edge of North Carolina, with the Hawthorne family deftly moving between the two. Follow Hazel Hawthorne as she navigates her parents' separation, hunts for Bigfoot along North Carolina's coast, and grapples with sleeping sickness and other lurking dangers. Faith Shearin takes us on a ride through folklore, fairy tales, tragedy, grief, and healing in this riveting novel-in-stories.

By: Faith Shearin
Imprint: Miscellaneous
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 15mm
ISBN: 9781948585651
ISBN 10: 1948585650
Pages: 144
Publication Date: 05 March 2024
Recommended Age: From 12 years
Audience: Young adult , Preschool (0-5)
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Faith Shearin's books of poetry include: The Owl Question (May Swenson Award), Moving the Piano (SFA University Press), Telling the Bees (SFA University Press), Orpheus, Turning (Dogfish Head Poetry Prize), Darwin's Daughter (SFA University Press), and Lost Language (Press 53). Her short stories have appeared in The Missouri Review, Meridian, Literal Latte, Atticus Review, Frigg and Bellevue Literary Review among others. She won the 2021 Leapfrog Global Young Adult Fiction Prize for her novel Lost River, 1918. She has received awards from Yaddo, The National Endowment for the Arts, The Barbara Deming Memorial Fund and The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Recent work has been read aloud on The Writer's Almanac and included in American Life in Poetry.