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The Moorings of Mackerel Sky by MZ, M.Z. Emily Zack is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Moorings of Mackerel Sky about?
"Arresting, lyrical, and deeply emotional, MZ's debut will captivate readers of Alix E. Harrow's The Ten Thousand Doors of January." —Booklist (Starred review)"An enchanting tale of grief and hope... as powerful and sparkling as the sea." —Emily Jane, bestselling author of On Earth as it Is on TelevisionDebut 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 Nimuë 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 cursed by their tempestuous affair.Three hundred years later, the legend of the Mermaid and the Captain who loved her still invigorates and haunts the inhabitants of the small Maine lobstering town. Take gruff widow Myra Kelley, who finds herself the de facto guardian of Leo Beale and knows his drunken antics are really attempts to escape an opiate-addicted mother and her boyfriends. Or Derrick Stowe, the town’s star pitcher, who wants nothi
Who reads The Moorings of Mackerel Sky?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- MZ, M.Z. Emily Zack
- Publisher
- Hyperion Avenue
- Published
- 2024
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781368097260
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fantasy, High Fantasy