The Moorings of Mackerel Sky Format:Paperback For readers of Cold Mountain

For readers of Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier and Enemy Women by Paulette Jiles

In this battle

Celebrating the Disgusting Side of Nature

When every detail of her childhood was so intensely scrutinized

accused of being vile and poisonous

The Moorings of Mackerel Sky Format:Paperback For readers of Cold MountainDebut novelist MZ marries fantasy with the everyday in her contemporary novel of a Maine lobstering town whose local mermaid myths come to life. They say Mackerel Sky was founded when Captain Burrbank first saw Nimu the Mermaid and forgot the sea. Stricken by love, he moored his tall ship and made camp on the highest cliff, hoping to forever gaze upon her beauty. That camp became a settlement, the settlement a town, the town a community both blessed