Description
In 1976, while fishing off the island of Black Conch, David encounters Aycayia—a thousand-year-old Taino mermaid whose return to the surface unsettles everything he thought he understood about the sea, desire, and ownership. As their connection deepens, the story braids romance with a searching indictment of the colonial habits of possession and extraction that have long shaped the Caribbean. Roffey’s lyrical, genre-bending style turns a love story into a meditation on freedom, longing, and the costs of treating living beings as resources. With themes of queerness, cultural memory, and the politics of care, this novel invites readers to rethink what it means to rescue, to love, and to belong to the waters that hold us.
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paperback
Random House
Published May 1, 2021
202 pages
ISBN: 9781473597068
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Details
First Published
2020
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Mermaid of Black Conch by Monique Roffey.