Mermaids in Paradise

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Product Details
Price
$15.95  $14.83
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date
Pages
304
Dimensions
5.5 X 8.2 X 0.7 inches | 0.5 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780393351729

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About the Author
Lydia Millet is the author of A Children's Bible, a finalist for the National Book Award and a New York Times Top Ten book of the Year. Her story collection Love in Infant Monkeys was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. She holds a master's degree in environmental economics and works at the Center for Biological Diversity.
Reviews
A writer without limits, always surprising, always hilarious.--Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia! and Orange World and Other Stories
Mermaids in Paradise makes brilliant comedy out of a honeymoon trip that veers from the absurd to the sublime and back again. Lydia Millet is a stone-cold genius.--Jenny Offill, author of Dept. of Speculation and Weather
[A] deft satire.--Melissa Maerz "Entertainment Weekly"
Lydia Millet is the American writer with the funniest, wisest grasp on how we fool ourselves.--Charles Finch "Chicago Tribune"
A romp with sharp teeth...a slapstick variation on Millet's abiding theme: the relationship between human beings and the natural world.--Laura Miller "Salon"
Millet, with her keen sense of the absurd, brings the book to a surprising conclusion, and makes a point about corporate greed and the destruction of the environment without being heavy-handed.--Moira Hodgson "Wall Street Journal"
Suspenseful, philosophical, and tropical--the funniest you'll ever read on ecotourism and the wisest you'll ever read on mermaids.--Natalie Beach "O Magazine"
A hilarious genre-bender that strikes some serious chords.--Jane Ciabattari "BBC"
[A] laser-focused satire...The novel has the shape and pace of a thriller... An admirable example of a funny novel with a serious message that works swimmingly. Dive in.-- "Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"
With equal parts calculated wryness and pleading earnestness, [Millet] delivers a thrilling piece of fabulist fiction.-- "Publishers Weekly (starred review)"