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The Mermaid of Black Conch: A novel Mental illness But lurking under her cheerfulThis enchanting tale of a cursed mythical creature and the lonely fisherman who falls in love with her is "a daring, mesmerizing novelsingle handedly bringing magic realism up to date" (Maggie OFarrell, best selling author of Hamnet). "Sentence by sensuous sentence, Roffey builds a verdant, complicated world that is a pleasure to live inside. You might start to believe in the existence of mermaids. The New York Times In 1976, David is fishing off the