| International Standard Book Number |
9781645661535 (hardcover)
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| International Standard Book Number |
1645661539 (hardcover)
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| Personal Name |
Kelley, Venessa Vida, author.
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| Title Statement |
When the tides held the moon / Venessa Vida Kelley.
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| Edition Statement |
First Erewhon hardcover printing
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York, NY : Erewhon, an imprint of Kensington Publishing Corp., 2025.
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| Physical Description |
456 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
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| General Note |
Content warning: contains depictions of alcoholism, character death & illness, hate speech, homophobia, racism, sexual trafficking/abuse (off-page), and violence.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"Benigno "Benny" Caldera knows an orphaned Boricua blacksmith in 1910s New York City can't call himself an artist. But the ironwork tank he creates for famed Coney Island playground, Luna Park, astounds everyone, especially the eccentric side-show proprietor who commissioned it. Benny's work earns him an invitation to join the show's eclectic crew of performers -- his first welcome in the city -- and share in their astonishing secret: the tank Benny built is a cage for their newest exhibit, a living, breathing, in-the-flesh merman stolen from the banks of the East River under a gleaming full moon. The merman is more than a mythic marvel, though. Benny comes to know Rio as a clever philosopher, an observant traveler, and a kindred spirit more beautiful and compassionate than any human he's ever met. Despite their different worlds, what begins as a friendship of necessity deepens to love, leading Benny's heart into uncharted waters where he can no longer ignore the agonizing truth of Rio's captivity -- and his own. A cage is no place for a merman to survive. Though releasing Rio means betraying his new family, bankrupting their home, and losing his soulmate forever, Benny must look within for the courage to do what's right, and find a love strong enough to free them both." -- Provided by publisher.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Orphans Fiction.
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Mermen Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Blacksmiths Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Nineteen tens Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Captivity Fiction.
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LGBTQ+ people Fiction.
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Man-man relationships Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Right and wrong Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
New York (N.Y.) Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Historical fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Fantasy fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Gay fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Queer fiction.
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