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Recent Reads: The Mermaid of Black Conch
The Mermaid of Black Conch by Monique Roffey. Roffey offers an intriguing and moving mix of fable and razor-sharp narrative set around the story of Aycayia, a cursed mermaid who is sung to the surface near a tiny Caribbean island by an unsuspecting fisherman, and promptly caught. Roffey’s prose throws out any preconceptions we may…