BDN: Mermaids, fishermen and coffee brandy populate this Mainer’s debut novel

From the Bangor Daily News, 1/28/24

“PORTLAND, Maine — Emily Zack’s first published novel, which hits bookstores next month, includes an expletive we can’t print here in its first, six-word sentence.

Then it gets a little crazy.

Zack, who goes by the pen name MZ, fills the next 250-or-so pages of “The Moorings of Mackerel Sky” with outrageous, yet still recognizable, Maine characters, settings, libations and situations.”

Read the full piece here: https://www.bangordailynews.com/2024/01/28/portland/portland-culture/mermaids-fishermen-mainers-debut-novel-joam40zk0w/