Last Mermaid Princess: gets an award for 'awesome disclaimer'

 

Anaphora Literary Press release The Last Mermaid Princess..

Lily Lewis’s The Last Mermaid Princess was a rough read.

I would be hard pressed if I would suggest this book to others. It was raw, it was sad.. It was also amazingly well written. The text and descriptions were phenomenal.

On the opposing face, I cannot say I enjoyed it, though I do not regret reading it. I dont applaud car crashes when I drive past them, this was like driving past a pileup.

A semi-autobiographical (90% fact 10% fiction) story following Lily’s life with some names and details changed or embellished, it chronicles and describes her life long slow implosion.

Lily grows up in a small texas town, the only Thai child, different and unwelcome. She is bullied, abused, sexually assaulted. Her mother is unhinged, acting as a shepherd for a lot of the abuse, basking in some power play. The book continues to follow Lily as she gets older, enters college. She becomes a mother, and tries to break the cycle that ruled her life.

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I sat on this book for a couple years because I HATE reading PDFs.. Finally found an amazing text to speech program that helped me avoid the PDF all together.