My Life As A Mermaid: And Other Stories

Here characters grapple with feeling trapped. The title story juxtaposes the lives of two sisters: one a frustrated housewife and the other a relief worker in Honduras. In ‘Joe Blow’ two homeless men face the gentrification of their neighbourhood. The story ‘Fixed’, inspired by the Patti Smith song Don’t Say Nothing,‘ relates a woman’s attempt to fit into a party while enduring the grief of losing her boyfriend to an overdose. These are just three in a collection as poignant as it is disturbing, written by the winner of the Dzanc Books Short Story Collection Prize.