02096cam a2200361 i 4500 1735470095 TxAuBib 20241120120000.0 230321s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780063257603 hardback 0063257602 hardback (OCoLC)1373629489 TxAuBib rda Song, Jade, author. Chlorine : a novel / Jade Song. First edition. New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023] ©2023. 237 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Ren Yu is a swimmer. Her daily life starts and ends with the pool. Her teammates are her only friends. Her coach, her guiding light. If she swims well enough, she will be scouted, get a scholarship, go to a good school. Her parents will love her. Her coach will be kind to her. She will have a good life. But these are human concerns. These are the concerns of those confined to land, those with legs. Ren grew up on stories of creatures of the deep, of the oceans and the rivers. Ones that called sailors to their doom. Ones that dragged them down and drowned them. Ones that feasted on their flesh. Ones of the creature that she's always longed to become: mermaid. Ren aches to be in the water. She dreams of the scent of chlorine, the feel of it on her skin. And she will do anything she can to make a life for herself where she can be free. No matter the pain. No matter what anyone else thinks. No matter how much blood she has to spill."--Book jacket flap. 20241120. Women swimmers Fiction. Mermaids Fiction. Monsters Juvenile fiction. Teenage girls Fiction. Chinese American teenagers Fiction. Lesbian teenagers Fiction. Queer fiction. fast TXKIP