The Sea Beast Takes a Lover (Hardback)

'A treasury of fantastic tales - full of mermaids, prophetic dancing bears, exploding children, and distraught time travellers. It's also a collection of longing, of loss, of loving deeply, and of learning what it means to care for others. A brilliant book, daring and wonderful' -- Alexander Weinstein, author of Children of the New World
'Sits on a small shelf of books that I will read a dozen times over. It is full of explosions of magic' -- Ramona Ausubel, author of Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty
'Uncannily inventive yet unfailingly grounded in all-too-familiar struggles of the heart, these are stories that vary widely in subject matter but never in the confident distinctiveness of Michael Andreasen's voice. What a voice it is! What a vision! For what is more exciting to a reader than discovering a new way to see the world? This thrillingly original debut gives us just that in every story, on every page' -- Josh Weil, author of The Age of Perpetual Light
'Andreasen has a big, roomy imagination, and a command of language to furnish the worlds he creates with both precision and grandeur. These stories are, by turns, timeless and urgent, dreamy and nightmarish, heartbroken and hopeful. A brilliant collection' -- Charles Yu, author of Sorry Please Thank You and How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe