TY - BOOK AU - Ockler,Sarah TI - The summer of chasing mermaids SN - 9781481401272 : HRD AV - PZ7.O168 Sum 2015 U1 - [Fic] 23 PY - 2015/// CY - New York PB - Simon Pulse KW - Mute persons KW - Fiction KW - Communication KW - Loss (Psychology) KW - Dating (Social customs) KW - Community life KW - Oregon KW - West Indians KW - United States KW - West Indies N2 - After a boating accident takes her beautiful singing and speaking voice from her, Elyse d'Abreau, the youngest of six sisters, leaves her home in Tobago to stay in an Oregon seaside town where Christian Kane, a notorious playboy, challenges her to express herself and to overcome her fear of the sea ER -