Mermaids on the Moon - Softcover

"Seamlessly woven and warmly told . . . a by-woman-for-women tale of self-discovery, family and secrets." --St. Petersburg Times

"Stuckey-French . . . has a deep sensibility for the intimate dramas of unheralded lives played out on the miniscule stages of supermarkets, family restaurants and trailer parks." --The Miami Herald

"Hilarious and wacky, this story displays a variety of family loves and disappointments in a quirky, original way." --Elizabeth Strout, author of Amy and Isabelle

"Funny and witty, filled with enough quirky characters to open its own amusement park."--San Francisco Chronicle

"A lot of fun. . . . Creates a believable world of women aging not with resigned grace but with feisty zest." --The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Thirty-six years after giving up her job as a mermaid in the underwater pagents of Florida's Mermaid Springs, Grendy returns for a reunion and is hired for a starring role in the "Mermaids on the Moon" Labor Day show, until her mysterious disappearance brings her daughter to Mermaid City to find out what happened and to take her mother's role in the extravaganza. By the author of The First Paper Girl in Red Oak, Iowa. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.