The Mermaid that Came Between Them
Reviews

"As if the Brothers Grimm washed up on the shores of Grace Paley territory, The Mermaid that Came Between Them is a charming tale for the modern age. Carol Ann Sima has written a novel that is not only very funny and chock full of insights on love and loss, it is wondrous and wonderful."
-Binnie Kirshenbaum, author of Hester Among the Ruins

"Combining the whimsy of Peter Beagle with the eroticism of Francesca Lia Block, Carol Ann Sima delivers a postmodern Oedipal fairytale about finny love lost, regained, lost, and transcended. Along with a strong supporting cast, her trio of protagonists--writer Jacob Koleman, his son Mac and the decidedly unsterotypical undersea siren Claritha-perform a kind of aquatic ballet of desires and confusions on dry land, to much amusement and pathos. Speaking in declamatory yet nimble fashion, the lovers achieve some of the self-referentiality of John Barth's Arabian Nights escapades."
-Paul Di Filippo, author of Ribofunk, Joe's Liver, and Strange Trades

"With all the hobbit fever, this fantasy for grown-ups makes a refreshing change."
- Publishers Weekly

"An exciting new talent whose specialty is to use her satirical edginess in a way that turns the banality of everyday life into endless, subliminal messages from which higher truths are liable to leak out."
- The Philadelphia Inquirer