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 first work of short fiction, Love in Infant Monkeys, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She lives outside Tucson, Arizona.
"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)*
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