Forthcoming in June 2025

Sea Change is a loose retelling of Hans Chris­t­ian Ander­sen’s “The Lit­tle Mer­maid” set in the future — a YA sci­ence fic­tion love sto­ry about a gill-breath­ing girl who changes her­self so that she can be with the “nor­mal” guy she adores. It’s about love, of course, but it’s also about who is and is not “nor­mal”; about inclu­sion and exclu­sion; and about the ties of fam­i­ly — genet­ic and acquired. On anoth­er lev­el, it rais­es ques­tions about the rapid advances in human gene-edit­ing tech­nolo­gies, with which, dur­ing the life­times of today’s young read­ers, peo­ple will be trans­formed in ways we can hard­ly imag­ine now.