Background
Carol Ann Sima was born in 1956 in New York, New York, United States.
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Jane's Bad Hare Day
("One day short of the fourth official annual observance o...)
"One day short of the fourth official annual observance of a divorce (the husband insisted, the wife resisted, the husband filed first, the wife filed under duress), what woman wouldn't be unusually out of sorts?" But the last thing Jane Samuels expects is to be clobbered on the head by a six-foot hare in midtown Manhattan. Like a 1990s Alice, Jane pursues her rabbit through a Wonderland of big-city adventures, where elevators hold grudges and walls not only have ears but genitals. Reeling from the bunny hop on her forehead, Jane tries to make sense of the encounter with the help of her longtime friend Susan (monumentally self-possessed), her new friend the school crossing guard (the only witness to the hare-mugging), the married psychiatrist Jane's been having a fling with, and a new friend named Gerald with a nose that performs wonders.
https://www.amazon.com/Janes-American-Literature-Dalkey-Archive/dp/1564780724/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Jane%E2%80%99s+Bail+Hare+Day&qid=1606140527&s=books&sr=1-1-fkmr1
1995
The Mermaid That Came Between Them
(As a young boy visiting the seaside, Jacob met his first ...)
As a young boy visiting the seaside, Jacob met his first love: a mermaid named Claritha. Three decades later, he’s a divorced father of a college-age son and a writer of maritime adventure stories, Jacob renews his fantastical relationship with Claritha only to discover that his son too has fallen in love with the same bedazzling creature from the sea. Despite her supernatural sexuality, Claritha, like any ordinary landlocked female, is experiencing menopause and is pursuing a man to fertilize her one remaining egg. In response to this womanly rite of passage, and to help make sense of his intergeneration love triangle, Jacob pens a self-help book about men and menopause and unwittingly becomes a sought-after media sensation, though women’s groups question his credibility.
https://www.amazon.com/Mermaid-That-Came-Between-Them/dp/1566891248/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=The+Mermaid+That+Came+between+Them&qid=1606140937&s=books&sr=1-1
2001
Carol Ann Sima
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Career
Carol Ann Sima works as a grade school language-arts teacher in New York City. Her stories include giant rabbits, mermaids, and talking walls. Her first book, Jane’s Bail Hare Day, was published in 1995. This book tells the story of an October in the life of Jane Samuels, a Manhattan divorcee. To start things off, an enormous rabbit attacks Samuels in midtown Manhattan. This begins a tale of divorcee trauma, wherein she runs into her ex-husband and his pregnant new wife. Samuels’ ex-husband stocks his house by pulling furnishings out of a briefcase, and walls give advice and provide housing for New York’s homeless. Spontaneous sex breaks out with friends and strangers, and even with the walls. Sima includes some normality, however; Samuels eats ice cream and shops for a new swimsuit.
Sima's next book, The Mermaid Who Came between Them, revisits divorced life, this time with a male character. Published in 2002, the novel was written by hand at coffee shops around New York City. The main character, Jacob Koleman, a mildly successful novelist, fell in love when he was five with a mermaid named Claritha, who coaxed him into the water. Jacob later marries his second love, Cheryl, who later divorces him. Claritha eventually returns, afraid that mermaids will become extinct, and engages Jacob and his university-aged son, Mac, in an effort to fertilize her egg.
A native New Yorker, Sima has also written for Rain Taxi, Locus, and the Science Fiction Chronicle.
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Jane's Bad Hare Day
("One day short of the fourth official annual observance o...)
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The Mermaid That Came Between Them
(As a young boy visiting the seaside, Jacob met his first ...)
2001
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Jane's Bad Hare Day
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1995 - present