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September Girls

di Bennett Madison

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Vacationing in a sleepy beach town for the summer, Sam is pursued by hordes of blonde girls before falling in love with the unusual DeeDee, who compels him to uncover secrets about the community's ocean-dwelling inhabitants.
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teen fiction (older teens - the main character Sam is 17); mysterious girls with a common secret (mermaids). quite a bit of swearing (f__, b*tch, ho), and characters that speak in misogynistic tones, plus in the beginning Sam's mom appears to be some kind of radical feminist (and hence suffers quite a few jokes at her expense). However ridiculous such a person's actions might be, I feel like this is a personal barb against a particular person or persons, and could have been handled more appropriately (the author's bio blurb at the end says he did attend Sarah Lawrence, but I feel like this kind of rhetoric sets teens up with the wrong ideas). Sam's mom, in the end, turns out to just be confused/trying to figure out who she is, and is redeemed from her ridiculousness, but still.

I liked the story, but had a few issues besides the tone (those first two hateful chapters, in my opinion, could just be omitted entirely, as they add nothing to the story). If Sam's dad knew about the enchanted mirror, that would mean that he'd found it and given it to someone during his last visit 30 years before--and if he'd given it to Sam's mom, it would have shown her who she was (and she wouldn't have to go through all the soul-searching that's driving her family nuts). Sam's mom being a former Girl would answer a lot of questions, except for that magic mirror bit. On the other hand, if Sam's mom is a regular messed up human, does she really need to be that ridiculous? Sam could still have bonded with DeeDee if the mother was absent, period. ( )
  reader1009 | Jul 3, 2021 |
Ana's review convinced me to give it a try. From what others have written, I don't think I'm going to be swayed to the idea that this is a feminist book, since it seems a very shallow idea to me: in a patriarchal fantasy, a guy and a really, really hot blonde gal discover that sexism is bad.
  Kaethe | Oct 16, 2016 |
This is one seriously messed up fairy tale. Basically it's a story about mermaids from the mind of a morally bankrupt/horny teenage boy. I want to say high school boys might like it, but at the same time I want to be optimistic and hope that they're above drivel like this. ( )
  EmilyRokicki | Feb 26, 2016 |
So after reading this I feel like the cover and the title do not totally go with the book. The book tells an expanded version of the Little Mermaid curse but it's not about the romance. It's definitely told from a guys point of view. A raunchy, clever, gross teenage boy.

This book was definitely not what I was expecting from the cover, although I got some hints about it from looking over the goodreads review page. It's definitely an interesting twist on the mermaid fairy tale and I'm glad it wasn't a cookie cutter ending. ( )
  Rosa.Mill | Nov 21, 2015 |
So after reading this I feel like the cover and the title do not totally go with the book. The book tells an expanded version of the Little Mermaid curse but it's not about the romance. It's definitely told from a guys point of view. A raunchy, clever, gross teenage boy.

This book was definitely not what I was expecting from the cover, although I got some hints about it from looking over the goodreads review page. It's definitely an interesting twist on the mermaid fairy tale and I'm glad it wasn't a cookie cutter ending. ( )
  Rosa.Mill | Nov 21, 2015 |
Most of all, what this book has going for it is the ways in which it’s so damn deep — fitting, I suppose, for the topic. This is a nuanced, layered, complicated and not entirely resolved look at identity ... Identity is formed by the pressures around you, by society and by other people.
 
I'm totally in love with this book, and as you can see, I will hear no bad things about it. Sure, I can see why some people might not find it as attractive as I did, but that's okay—more for me. I want everyone to meet it, and feel like talking about it endlessly. It's gorgeous and real and makes me think and laugh, and it feels like we have this little inside-jokey, exclusive club of two.
aggiunto da karenb | modificaKirkus Reviews, Meghan Miller (May 21, 2013)
 
Starred review.... Madison maintains the same hazy, syrupy languidness that distinguished The Blonde of the Joke, giving summer days at the shore the same sort of mythological heft the fluorescent American mall possessed in his previous book. A surprising story of a kid finding love and himself, when he wasn’t looking for either.
aggiunto da karenb | modificaPublishers Weekly (Apr 22, 2013)
 

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Fitzsimmons, ErinTypographyautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato
Fitzsimmons, ErinProgetto della copertinaautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato
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