Cher's Memoir delves into her upbringing with her often either single or married to a new man, mom and her little sister.
The plot of Mermaids (novel by Patty Dunn, 1986) is that the mom, Mrs. Flax, has two daughters, Cher(lotte) just kidding, Charlotte, 14, and Kate, 6. The girls are always moving due to Mr. Flax walking out on them and Mrs. Flax constantly going through breakups and relocating the family. Just like Cher's childhood in real life. Cher then stars in Mermaids (film, 1990) as Mrs. Flax. The main character is Charlotte, which sounds a lot like Cher.
Cher's memoir states they moved so much she A. lost count and B. would sometimes wake up not knowing what house she was in. Additionally, there's a line in her novel where sometimes her mom would get upset with her for no reason. She later realized it was due to her looking just like her dad, who left them.
In the film Mermaids, Mrs. Flax tells Charlotte she looks just like her father.m, even though Winona Ryder could look like a child of Cher's.
In Mermaids, the film, (Cher)lotte, complains to her mom that she wakes up not knowing what town she is in.
I have to believe Cher influenced certain lines in the film, but the plot of Mermaids is exactly her childhood.
For those that read both and watched the film, did you make the connection, what did you think? What else did you notice?
by Nym-ph