McSweeney's McMullens, (2014). SIGNED - "Everyone in the broken-down town of Chelsea, Massachusetts, has a story too worn to repeat - But there's one story they all still tell:. . . the one about the girl who will be able to take their twisted world and straighten it out. The girl who will bring the magic. Could Sophie Swankowski be that girl? With her tangled hair and grubby clothes, her weird habits and her visions of a filthy, swearing mermaid who comes to her when she's unconscious," Zyzzyva called this book "a refreshing breath of air, equal parts eerie, heartbreaking and fantasical." SIGNED on the title page. Illustrated by Jason Polan. Includes an excerpt from the sequel. 334 pp.