The Moorings of Mackerel Sky Style:Hardcover A man speckled with Carnival

A man speckled with Carnival glitter crosses a crowded dance floor and seeks the warmth and beauty of another body

” Álvaro

who is probably but not certainly trans

but also about what it means to be a writer at any time in history

she is paired up with Li Shimin

The Moorings of Mackerel Sky Style:Hardcover A man speckled with CarnivalBy MZ Debut novelist MZ marries fantasy with the everyday in her contemporary novel of a Maine lobstering town whose local 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 and