Miss Rain, despite loving a Black island man named Life, and raising their deaf, mixed-race son, Reggie, alone, still lives in a literal house on the hill, built for her ancestor through the ...

Trinidad-born Monique Roffey discusses her surprise hit, 'The Mermaid of Black Conch,' and how Caribbean lit is no longer the province of toxic men. News. ... Some landowners, like Miss Rain, ...

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.

The Mermaid of Black Conch is the thirteenth novel to take the overall prize. Days Without End by Sebastian Barry was the last novel to be named Costa Book of the Year in 2016.

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 the Black Conch” is a uniquely Caribbean novel with all the hallmarks of the genre presented in different manners. David ceases fishing for fear of her entanglement in his nets ...

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 ...

“The Mermaid of Black Conch” 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. B… ...

“The Mermaid of the Black Conch” is a uniquely Caribbean novel with all the hallmarks of the genre presented in different manners. David ceases fishing for fear of her entanglement in his nets, but ...

'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 ...