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Monique Roffey has won the £30,000 Costa book of the year award for her sixth novel, The Mermaid of Black Conch, which opens as a fisherman on a Caribbean island sees a “barnacled, seaweed-clotted” mermaid raise her head from the sea.
Suzannah Lipscomb, the historian and broadcaster who chaired the judges, said the novel was “utterly original – unlike anything we’ve ever read – and feels like a classic in the making from a writer at the height of her powers”. Based on a legend from the Taino, an indigenous people of the Caribbean,
the novel is a dark love story about fisherman David and Aycayia, a beautiful woman cursed by jealous wives to live as a mermaid, who has swum the Caribbean for centuries.
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Biography/Memoir
The biography lover on your list will be very happy to unwrap
âFamily in Six Tonesâ by Lan Cao and Harlan Margeret Van Cao. Itâs a book about a woman who came to the U.S. from Vietnam as a young girl, settled in and became an American success but then struggled to raise an American daughter. Itâs a book about family, legacy, love, and your giftee will adore it. Wrap it up with another story of time and place:
âMiracle Country: A Memoirâ by Kendra Atleework, set in Eastern Sierra Nevada, Minnesota and back.
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Looking for some last minute Christmas stocking stuffers? Check out these books
Books make great last-minute stocking-stuffers. Here are a few suggestions for every type of reader, young, old and everything in between. Hint: You can also use this column for some ideas on how to spend those book store gift certificates that you find in your own stocking this year.
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Some family members won t be there. Others are coming, regardless of whatever s going on in the country. Still others are sending their regards and a box of presents, which is something you might do, too. And here s the good news: books are easy to wrap, easy to box, and easy to ship. Why not try one of these great books for that person who can t make it to your table this holiday season?
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