Mermaids

Description:

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,  Mothers and daughters,  Teenage girls,  Fiction, family life, general,  Mothers and daughters, fiction,  Massachusetts, fiction,  Fiction, coming of age,  Fiction, general,  Mermaids

Places: Massachusetts