Selkie Girl by Laurie Brooks is a moderately good book. It has a love story, and a conflict independent of the romance, but it is a bit slow.
Elin Jean is a sixteen-year-old girl living on an island whose location is never really stated. Every year, there is a "culling" of the seal pups by the islanders, something she despises. She's different in another way, too: between her fingers, translucent webs grow. Her father is a hard man who tries to cut these webs off time and again. Her mother has grown old and frail. The villagers shun her. Then one day, the seals whisper to her about a pelt in her house that she must give to her mother...
The status of this book is: Recommended.
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