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Broke English teacher Penelope Schleeman is as surprised as anyone when her feminist novel American Mermaid becomes a best-seller. Lured by the promise of a big payday, she quits teaching and moves to L.A. to turn the novel into an action flick with the help of some studio hacks. But as she's pressured to change her main character from a fierce, androgynous eco-warrior to a teen sex object in a clamshell bra, strange things start to happen. Threats appear in the screenplay; siren calls lure Penelope’s co-writers into danger. Is Penelope losing her mind, or has her mermaid come to life, enacting revenge for Hollywood’s violations? American Mermaid follows a young woman braving the casual slights and cruel calculations of a ruthless industry town, where she discovers a beating heart in her own fiction, a mermaid who will fight to move between worlds without giving up her voice. A hilarious story about deep things, American Mermaid asks how far we’ll go to protect the parts of ourselves that are not for sale.

One afternoon in November 1975, ten-year-old Miranda Larkin comes home from school to find her house eerily quiet. Her mother is missing. Nothing else is out of place. There is no sign of struggle. Her mom’s pocketbook remains in the front hall, in its usual spot.   So begins a mystery that will span a lifetime. What happened to Jane Larkin?   Investigators suspect Jane’s husband. A criminal defense attorney, Dan Larkin would surely be an expert in outfoxing the police.   But no evidence is found linking him to a crime, and the case fades from the public’s memory, a simmering, unresolved riddle. Jane’s three children—Alex, Jeff, and Miranda—are left to be raised by the man who may have murdered their mother.   Two decades later, the remains of Jane Larkin are found. The investigation is awakened. The children, now grown, are forced to choose sides. With their father or against him? Guilty or innocent? And what happens if they are wrong?

En plena crisis de madurez, Bennie Salazar, que en los setenta formó parte de una banda punk y ahora es un alto ejecutivo de la decadente industria discográfica, se echa copos de oro en el café para recuperar el apetito sexual. Sasha, su asistente, después de haber viajado mucho y no siempre en circunstancias felices, se trata de su cleptomanía con un psicoanalista que viste jerséis estrambóticos. En torno a ellos se despliega una variopinta red de personajes, desde una relaciones públicas que intenta lavarle la cara a un general genocida hasta un periodista que ha estado en prisión por abusar de una estrella de cine adolescente. Con el rock palpitando en cada una de sus páginas, El tiempo es un canalla es un entramado fascinador que pasa por lugares como Nueva York, San Francisco, Kenia, Nápoles o el desierto de California, y cubre un período que va de los años setenta hasta el 2020.