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Author:

Fama, Elizabeth.

Title:

Monstrous beauty / Elizabeth Fama.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Farrar Straus Giroux,

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

295 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Mermaids--Fiction.
Ghosts--Fiction.
Murder--Fiction.
Supernatural--Fiction.
Massachusetts--Fiction.
Massachusetts--History--19th century--Fiction.

Summary:

In alternating chapters, tells of the mermaid Syrenka's love for Ezra in 1872 that leads to a series of horrific murders, and present-day Hester's encounter with a ghost that reveals her connection to the murders and to Syrenka.

ISBN:

0374373663
9780374373665

LCCN:

2011031668

Locations:

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

DRPC413 -- Britt Public Library (Britt)

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

YBPC572 -- Central City Public Library (Central City)

YTPG232 -- Clinton Public Library (Clinton)

VFPB334 -- Elgin Public Library (Elgin)

MXPG943 -- Fort Dodge Public Library (Fort Dodge)

CMPE792 -- Drake Community Library (Grinnell)

GKPC851 -- Huxley Public Library (Huxley)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

GOPG641 -- Marshalltown Public Library (Marshalltown)

NUPD663 -- Osage Public Library (Osage)

DEPA173 -- Thornton Public Library (Thornton)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)

ZVPB675 -- Whiting Public Library (Whiting)