Doing research for the Saga yesterday and needed to find inspiration circa 1975. That’s how I came across copies of “The Game of Jaws.” I read about it and don’t remember what ages the game was marketed toward, but it probably included children who were too young to have seen that movie.
I did a deep dive into the film because even though it forever changed my relationship with water (and not just salt water, any water that wasn’t safely contained in cement), I was crazy about both the novel and the film Jaws. My research opened up an unplanned and light way to start the new section of the novel.
The summer of ’75 was a bit chaotic for me, and as is usual, the only person who was damaged in the long run was…me. One of my favorite lines from the remake of Freaky Friday is the mom (Jamie Lee Curtis) calling out to her daughter (Lindsay Lohan) as she drops her at school, “Make good choices!”
I made bad choices that summer. But I still remember it with great affection because of the big version of this wee shark taking a bite out of a coloring book, instead of me. It’s the way I prefer my sharks’ diets.
