Myla Alvarez, novice, walks into the Sonoran desert near Tucson, Arizona and begins telling stories about the Old Mermaids who were washed ashore onto the New Desert when the Old Sea dried up. In this mystical new world, they lived, created, and walked in beauty. Myla finds sustenance and meaning in their lives and stories. But she worries that Homeland Security may discover the illegal immigrants she harbors at the Old Mermaid Sanctuary. When an old friend reenters her life, Myla begins to doubt herself and the wisdom of preserving the Old Mermaid Sanctuary. Will the Old Mermaids come to her aid? Church of the Old Mermaids is a tale of redemption, love, compassion, and mystery.
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Kim Antieau is the author of many novels, including most recently Ruby's Imagine, Broken Moon, and Coyote Cowgirl. She and her husband Mario Milosevic swim in the Pacific Northwest and Desert Southwest.
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I was a wild child, and I spent as much time outdoors as I could. The rest of the time I spent reading and writing'and running around in my imagination. When I was in elementary school, I "discovered" that my friends and I were really from another planet, sent here as Earth girls to observe the local fauna: i.e., humans. We came from a planet where girls and women had all the power, politically and magically. Men and boys didn't do much! So during recess, my friends and I often went on adventures to save the world. I wrote some of these adventures down, but I was a writer even before then. I used to draw pictures and staple them into books before I could read. And my parents bought me a small printing press, so I created my own books, too. And now I'm all grown up and still writing stories. I love my job.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
By Kerrdelune
Format:Paperback
I am absolutely delighted that this beautiful book has made its appearance, and that at long last, Myla and the Old Mermaids are bringing their stories and their fey wisdom into the world we know.
This is a wondrous magical tale, one to be treasured and to be read over and over again, learning something incandescent at every reading. The world needs mermaid sanctuaries - it needs old mermaids, young mermaids, novices, postulants and full ordained mermaid sisters. I've already signed up...
This is a wondrous magical tale, one to be treasured and to be read over and over again, learning something incandescent at every reading. The world needs mermaid sanctuaries - it needs old mermaids, young mermaids, novices, postulants and full ordained mermaid sisters. I've already signed up...
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By happy cook
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
I loved this book. It was a story I had to read as quickly as I could, I had to know what happened. Beautiful story, wonderful images of mermaids and a celebration of love and tzedakah. Made me happy to be human....made me wish to be an old mermaid
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By Marilyn King
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
I love this book so much, it's heartwarming and imaginative - Kim has a real gift for storytelling!
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Full of heart~~~outstanding!
I loved this book so much that as soon as I finished it, I started it again...then I recommended it to friends. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Tracie L. Jones
4.0 out of 5 stars
Beautiful concepts decently realized
The ideas in Kim Antieau's beautiful novel make a heady magical-realist cocktail of emotional survival through storytelling, trickster wiles on La Frontera, women's wisdom,... Read more
Published on April 22, 2010 by Richard A. Loftus
5.0 out of 5 stars
A book that may be just what you need.
I read a lot books but every once in a while I get a book that is just what I needed. This was one of those books.
Beautifully written it can not fail to touch you. Read more
Beautifully written it can not fail to touch you. Read more
Published on July 27, 2009 by Stormcrow Grayhelm
5.0 out of 5 stars
One of my favourite writers
Kim Antieau is a gift, pure and simple. She writes book after book that uplift and inspire, and sometimes have a decent recipe in them, too. Read more
Published on February 23, 2009 by Charles de Lint
5.0 out of 5 stars
It's a magical story of soul retrieval
After reading Kim's novel Coyote Cowgirl she left me wanting more from this wonderful story teller. As a mixed media artist I love creating with found objects and Myla's journey,... Read more
Published on February 14, 2009 by SharedJourneys
5.0 out of 5 stars
the old mermaid way
every once in a while a book comes along that reminds you why you like to read.
This is such a book and that's the old mermaid way.
This is such a book and that's the old mermaid way.
Published on February 9, 2009 by Arthur Underhill
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