![]() ![]() Broad clues point to the story's core secret, that Trout and Eel are the sons of a mermaid. ![]() McGill repaints his sons' bedroom white (they preferred the "endless blue" of the sea), the three of them decide to run away. After Hildy ruins Martha's prized possession, a shawl that had belonged to her mother, and the hydrophobic Mr. Martha's best friends Trevor and Eli McGill-adopted brothers better known as Trout and Eel-have problems of their own, including town gossip about their odd eating habits (salt water, raw tuna) and their webbed fingers and toes. In landlocked Oak Grove-where a flood years ago has made the townspeople so fearful of water that the local swimming pool stays drained-13-year-old Martha Glimmer mourns her mother's death and chafes under the disapproving ministrations of busybody neighbor Hildy Swoon. ![]() This slim offering finds Hoffman ( Aquamarine) once again in mermaid mode. ![]()
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