Mermaids in Paradise

"I laughed so hard all over town...leave it to Lydia Millet to capsize her human characters in aquamarine waters and upstage their honeymoon with mermaids. I am awed to know there's a mind like Millet's out there-she's a writer without limits, always surprising, always hilarious." -- Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove "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 "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 "[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 "A hilarious genre-bender that strikes some serious chords." -- Jane Ciabattari - BBC.com "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] deft satire... Millet ramps up the suspense." -- Melissa Maerz - Entertainment Weekly "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 "Now that David Foster Wallace is gone, I think Lydia Millet is the American writer with the funniest, wisest grasp on how we fool ourselves... she has as good a chance as anyone to write the novel that defines our time." -- Charles Finch - Chicago Tribune