For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
—Virginia Woolf
The Sag Harbor Mermaid Club
It only takes five women, three splashing dogs, and one horseshoe crab, to start The Sag Harbor Mermaid Club. Floating like Poo sticks with the tide, the members of the mermaid club expand into a communal skinny-dip of women of all shapes, sizes and walks of life; from waitresses to heiresses the mermaids do what women do best: discuss about their children, their lovers, their husbands, wives, and G-spots.
On any given morning, you’ll find Deana the African-American cartoonist complaining about her nefarious tweenager (Goth Girl!) and Super Hero hunk of a husband; Chou Chou, a French artist, with a philandering husband and two boys; Lenka, the research scientist who monitors horseshoe crab populations and is trying to get pregnant; Super Shelly, the Wonder Jew, able to find Cashmere sales in a single bound—when she’s not having sex with her former underwear model boyfriend—and Dune, the manic swimmer who binds them together. Summer in the Hamptons is not just celebrities and parties, local people have to work for a living. When a nor'easter brings tragedy to their small hamlet, the mermaids dive into the rough seas to rescue one of their own and discover that Venus best rises with the help of friends.
“SPLASH-TASTIC! The Sag Harbor Mermaid Club is a powerful tribute to the unmatched and enduring power of female friendships.”
—Kate Feiffer, Morning Pages
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Star Crossed - Romeo & Juliet in Hitler's Paris
On the First Jewish Transport of French Women to Auschwitz - Annette was just 20 years old. Her crime? Love.
Paris, 1940. The City of Light has fallen under German Occupation. Among patriotic Parisians, the pursuit of art, culture, and jazz have become bold acts of defiance. So has forbidden romance for talented and spirited Jewish teenager Annette Zelman, a student at the Beaux-Arts, and dashing young Catholic poet Jean Jausion. Despite their devout families’ vehement opposition, the young couple finds acceptance at the famed Café de Flore, whose habitues include Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Pablo Picasso, Django Reinhardt, and other luminaries of the Latin Quarter’s creative world.
For a time, Annette and Jean elude the brute might of the relentless Nazis and their parents’ threats and demands. But as restrictions on the Jewish community escalate, maleficent forces gather around our young lovers setting them on divergent and tragically inevitable paths.
Drawn from never-before-published family letters and other treasures, as well as archival sources and exclusive interviews, Star-Crossed offers us precious insight into the Holocaust and the lives French people bravely led under the Hitler regime. This breathtaking true story of beauty, art, liberation and the transformative power of love resonates with an intimate story of undying devotion, seen through the prism of history.
Heather Dune Macadam should be included in that rare category of literary mystery masters such as Lawrence Block, Craig Holden, and Giles Blunt, whose lyrical prose and beautifully developed characters have a great deal to say about the troubled world we live in and its legacy of violence.
Kaylie Jones, author of Celeste Ascending and A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries