Shark Girls

In Shark Girls two women’s 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 “Gracie,” a casualty of a disfiguring accident, who becomes obsessed with “Shark Girl,” as Scat’s younger sister is known. In the media and popular belief, “Shark Girl” is rumored to have supernatural powers.