Reviewed by Doug Fiske
An interviewer once asked Gloria Steinem, the co-founder of Ms. magazine, how her experience in the publishing business had changed her. Ms. Steinem replied that she had learned to believe a lot less of what she read.
Generally speaking, people read nonfiction books to learn something they don't know. Readers trust the book's authors, editors and publishers to accurately convey information. For Tears of Mermaids, Stephen Bloom dove into a subject he didn't know...