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MERMAID: A Memoir of Resilience was chosen as one of Oprah's Best Memoirs of the Year (2014).MERMAID is included in the February O Magazine's selection "10 Titles to Pick Up Now.A gorgeously crafted memoir about resilience, family, and forging your own way, by a woman born without legs.At the age of three, Eileen Cronin first realized that only she did not have legs. Her boisterous Catholic family accepted her situation as "God's will," treating her no differently than her ten siblings, as she "squiddled" through their 1960s Cincinnati home. But starting school, even wearing prosthetics, Cronin had to brave bullying and embarrassing questions. Thanks to her older brother's coaching, she handled a classmate's playground taunts with a smack from her lunchbox.
About the Author
Eileen Cronin is the author of Mermaid: A Memoir of Resilience, WW Norton, one of Oprah's Best Memoirs of 2014: And in Pop Sugar's Must Reads of 2014. Mermaid was featured in The Daily Beast, and was on Page One in Poets & Writers. If you read Mermaid, please consider reviewing it, or vote on these lists:
