(Shark Girls is about two women whose lives are transformed by a shark attack that amputates a child's leg. It is alternately narrated by Scat, the older sister of the victim, now a reformed drunk and a disaster photographer, and by Gracie, a casualty of a disfiguring accident, who becomes obsessed with Shark Girl, as the younger sister is known, for Shark Girl is rumored to have supernatural powers. At the beginning of the novel, Shark Girl has disappeared.

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