The Sea Beast Takes a Lover - Hardcover

'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.