But the Trinidad-born author, 57, surprised even herself with her latest, “The Mermaid of Black Conch ... are driven mad due to trauma. Miss Rain is an amalgam of people I know in Trinidad ...

THE MERMAID ... also to Miss Arcadia Rain, the descendant of an Anglican priest who bought his land shortly after the end of slavery on the island. Miss Rain, despite loving a Black island man ...

THE MERMAID OF BLACK CONCH. By Monique Roffey. Knopf. 240 pages. $26. David is a fisherman and Aycayia is a mermaid. It’s pretty obvious where the story goes from here: David falls for Aycayia.

Like "The Deep," "The Mermaid of Black Conch" explores lost ancestries and imagines alternative futures. The novel highlights the continued impact of white settlement on a fictional Caribbean ...

The Mermaid of Black Conch, a dark love story about a fisherman and a mermaid torn from the sea, has won the Costa Book of the Year award. Trinidadian-born British writer Monique Roffey beat four ...

“The Mermaid of the Black Conch” is a uniquely Caribbean novel with all the hallmarks of the genre presented in different manners. Roffey moves between a general narrator, David’s thickly ...

The Mermaid of Black Conch, a dark love story about a fisherman and a mermaid torn from the sea, has won the Costa Book of the Year award. Trinidadian-born British writer Monique Roffey beat four ...

“The Mermaid of the Black Conch” is a uniquely Caribbean novel with all the hallmarks of the genre presented in different manners. Roffey moves between a general narrator, David’s thickly ...

“The Mermaid of the Black Conch” is a uniquely Caribbean novel with all the hallmarks of the genre presented in different manners. Roffey moves between a general narrator, David’s thickly Caribbean ...

œThe Mermaid of Black Conch'ť by Monique Roffey (Knopf) David is a fisherman and Aycayia is a mermaid. It's pretty obvious where the story goes from here: David falls for Aycayia. But author ...