Mermaid

Name: Mermaid
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Jodi Picoult
ISBN: 9781543660494

Author: Jodi Picoult

Narrator: Laurie Veldheer

Unabridged: 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 11/01/2017

Categories: Fiction, Women

Synopsis

There’s always more beneath the surface.Once, Hope Payne was a mermaid, performing at the local theme park and captivating audiences young and old.Today, she’s married to a pragmatic marine biologist who has filled the pool in their backyard with flounder for a special study. Before he begins, the fish vanish—echoing a loss Hope alone can understand. She senses there’s something underwater, something alive and hungry for more, but is she in too deep to ever resurface?New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult’s “Mermaid” is a spellbinding short story about the sacrifice it takes to swim again.

About Jodi Picoult

Jodi Picoult is an American novelist born in Nesconset, Long Island, New York. She has had a very diversified career with her education in writing being received at Princeton University. She had a variety of jobs ranging from writing short stories when still in college for Seventeen magazine and editing text books, to becoming the writer of the DC Comics Wonder Woman (Vol. 3), issue #6 in March 2007 and #10 in June of 2007.

Picoult’s first novel, Nineteen Minutes, about a school shooting in a small town became #1 on the NY Times Bestseller List. Then her second novel also debuted #1, entitled Change of the Heart. In 2009 her novel, My Sister’s Keeper was adapted to a featured film.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Chelsea on August 28, 2017

Excuse me Ma'am, but just what was that ending? I was actually really into this weird little story, but I felt it was just TOO short to do anything with. Perhaps we're being introduced to a new future character?......more

Goodreads review by Katy O. on August 23, 2017

DO NOT PAY 2.99 for this! Okay, now that I got that out of the way, let me state my undying love for Jodi Picoult and every *BOOK* she has ever written. This is NOT a book. This is a 12-minute short story, which I knew going into it when I got it from Kindle Unlimited, so I was fine with the format......more

Goodreads review by Lynn on August 01, 2024

Good but Unsatisfying Jodi Picoult is definitely a skilled writer and has a talent for creating moods and scenes that you can both see and feel in your minds eye. This story was no exception starting out with a mother floating in the warm water of the Gulf expecting to hear the water tell her what t......more

Goodreads review by Suzzie on March 07, 2018

Wth was that ending? I get it was a short story but I liked the motion/moving pictures a lot more than I did the story. I only have Picture Perfect to read and I will have to wait for Jodi Picoult to release a new book, but this was not for me. It was a cool concept but wasn’t for me. My quick and s......more

Goodreads review by Tan on July 20, 2018

3/5 stars! This was a short and sweet single that I listened to on Scribd. Jodi Picoult had always been one of my favourite authors. Her writing is always so wonderful and emotional and I often find myself picking up one of her books when I’m in a reading slump and that’s why I ended up delving into......more