The Sea Beast Takes a Lover Stories

<b>"Andreasen breathes new life into familiar tropes via the ingenuity of his storytelling.... the refreshing stories in this debut collection are full of delicious detours." -</b><i><b>Publisher's Weekly</b><br> <br></i>Dazzling and delightful, with its feet only slightly tethered to the world we know, <i>The Sea Beast Takes A Lover e</i>xplores family, faith, and longing through a kaleidoscope of surreal landscapes and spellbinding characters.<br> <br> Andreasen's stories unfold in wildly inventive worlds that invite the supernatural into our familiar routines: in "Bodies in Space," an extramarital affair is rudely interrupted by an alien abduction, while in "Blunderbuss." a third-grade class takes an ill-advised field trip to a floundering time travel institute. "Jenny" follows a reluctant caretaker's attempts to manage his kind-hearted headless sister, and in the title story, a group of sailors find their ship commandeered by an aggressively lovestruck kraken.<br> <br> Romping through the fantastic with bighearted ease, these stories uncover a universal yearning for connection in seldom-explored spaces, revealing that aliens can help us think about loss, that time travel is just another way to talk about guilt, and that sea monsters may have a thing or two to teach us about love.<br> <br> With a captivating new voice from an immensely talented storyteller, <i>The Sea Beast Takes a Lover</i> uses the odd, the extraordinary, and the miraculous to expose us at our most profoundly and hilariously human.