When you think of a mermaid story, maybe an ocean comes to mind.
Credit Kristina Stonehill
But couldn’t a mermaid live in the Great Lakes? Lake Michigan maybe?
Writers Linda Nemec Foster and Anne-Marie Oomen posed that question to each other ten years ago. Their new book is called The Lake Michigan Mermaid: A Tale in Poems.
Listen above to hear Nemec Foster and Oomen read a short excerpt from their new book, and talk about how they came to write a story about a mermaid from Lake Michigan.
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