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FINALLY VERA IS EXPLICITLY IRISH AMERICAN IN THE BOOK. only took 385 pages 😭😭😭. genderqueer Irish American baddie 🥲

"youre DYING by being kept captive in the tank *I* made for you??? surely a lake will work for a MERMAID" YOUR BOYFRIEND ISNT A FUCKING GOLDFISH BENNY

this entire thing is so crazy for me to read like.... Benny is afro-Puerto Rican and he is being SO WEIRD about literally keeping this DYING merman in captivity because.... hes in love with him???

Jesus christ were these Italian American gangsters just yanked out of Godfather? the goons are literally named "Righty" and "Lefty" I'm losing my mind

"i hadn't considered that" 💀💀💀💀 you hadn't considered that the merman ur boss had you capture would be gawked at by thousands of people?

I just read this scene where the brown Puerto Rican with African ancestry is kissed by the white female character and she ran away crying and someone asked if everything was fine and I got SO STRESSED OUT like this is fucking 1910 OH MY GOD why is this scene in this book. I got the WORST flashbacks of American history

so the first mention of an Italian American character in this book is... a mob member. The first character with an explicitly Italian American name is a member of the Italian mob in New York? its the abusive, drunk ex-husband SEAMUS all over again

Río- literally imprisoned in a tank by humans for a sideshow attraction
Río- apologizes to Benigno for "suggesting he endanger himself more than he has"

what 😭

ah so now the only Italian American characters portrayed are mobsters 😂