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“Hilariously funny. . . . Lydia Millet’s novels raise the bar for boldness.”—Rene Steinke, New York Times Book Review
On the grounds of a Caribbean island resort, newlyweds Deb and Chip—our opinionated, skeptical narrator and her cheerful jock husband who's friendly to a fault—meet a marine biologist who says she's sighted mermaids in a coral reef.
As the resort's "parent company" swoops in to corner the market on mythological creatures, the couple joins forces with other adventurous souls, including an ex–Navy SEAL with a love of explosives and a hipster Tokyo VJ, to save said mermaids from the "Venture of Marvels," which wants to turn their reef into a theme park.
Mermaids in Paradise is Lydia Millet's funniest book yet, tempering the sharp satire of her early career with the empathy and subtlety of her more recent novels and short stories. This is an unforgettable, mesmerizing tale, darkly comic on the surface and illuminating in its depths.
- Sales Rank: #276990 in eBooks
- Published on: 2014-11-03
- Released on: 2014-10-27
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review
“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)
About the Author
Lydia Millet is the author of the novels Sweet Lamb of Heaven, Mermaids in Paradise, Ghost Lights (a New York Times Notable Book), Magnificence (finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize) and other books. Her story collection Love in Infant Monkeys was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. She lives outside Tucson, Arizona.
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23 of 25 people found the following review helpful.
Actually it would be politically correct to call it Mers in Paradise.
By Amelia Gremelspacher
This is a wonderful book that swallows the reader whole. Deb, our narrator is witty, and darkly humorous. By the time she has told us about her wedding, and her slightly antisocial approach to life, we have fallen into her view of the world. The next chapter, she has gone on a honeymoon with her husband Chip and has seen a mermaid. And the reader seems to seamlessly go with the assumption that this is true and that the real issue is keeping her safe and secret.
Deb is a cranky young woman. Under the sway of her friend, she is way too obsessed with the obesity epidemic for my taste, but that would be my single problem with her. The rest of the way she views our race with spirited distrust is endearing to me. Then having fallen for the whole assumption about having seen the mermaids, it seems logical to be involved in a race to save said mers, which apparently is the politically correct way to refer to them.
As far as I am concerned, any book that refers to a politically correct form for mermaids is a keeper. The quirky point of view enhances the package, and the jaundiced view of society wraps it up. This is a great book;well a great book to read.
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful.
This book is roaringly hilarious yet genuinely thoughtful and will have readers laughing aloud at lines and the situations.
By Bookreporter
I honestly can't remember the last time a book made me laugh as hard as the first 50 pages of Lydia Millet's MERMAIDS IN PARADISE did. Deb, the alternately self-absorbed, hypercritical and clueless narrator, and her new husband Chip are, for better or for worse, perfect for each other. Even before they embark on the honeymoon from hell, readers will know they're in the hands of a comic genius once they immerse themselves in Millet's unique and hilarious brand of humor.
Deb is the breadwinner of the couple, a formerly aspiring singer-songwriter who abandoned her artistic ambitions in favor of an MBA and a corner office. She helps support the hobbies of her fiancé, Chip, which include participating in Spartan-style extreme road races. Deb might drink a little more than is good for her (perhaps especially while she's ostensibly cheering for Chip from the sidelines), but otherwise she is happy with her life and looking forward to their upcoming honeymoon in the British Virgin Islands, a destination the couple did not decide upon lightly: "Chip yearned for daring exploits; I didn't so much yearn as just not want to have any."
Deb, therefore, vetoes Chip's hopes for "volcano bicycle camping, snowshoeing on glaciers, ruined Cambodian temples." Instead, they wind up at a thoroughly conventional Caribbean resort, where Chip's greatest hope for adventure is the prospect of encountering vacationing denizens of the Heartland: "The Middle Americans are resolute, Chip thinks, living by choice in that vast featureless space, that oddly irrelevant no-man's land." At dinner the first night, Chip and Deb do indeed encounter some Middle Americans; they also meet a marine biologist whose acquaintance leads them into more daring exploits than any Chip would have dreamed up on his own.
On a seemingly routine snorkeling excursion, Nancy, the marine biologist, swears she encounters a mermaid; Chip soon corroborates her story, and things just start getting weirder from there. Soon our honeymooners find themselves at the center of a plot involving a multinational corporation, a retired Navy SEAL, a kidnapping, a Japanese Internet celebrity, and a host of other shenanigans.
Throughout, much of the humor is broadcast through Deb's singular, self-centered voice. Even as the passionate mermaid defenders are being threatened by a group of armed soldiers, Deb's biggest concern is that she's being videotaped wearing a borrowed muumuu while her hair looks like a fright wig. Some readers may find themselves wishing for more of the kind of caustic commentaries that characterize Deb's narration at the opening of the novel. Once the plot gets underway, the tone changes somewhat, and her self-delusion takes a backseat to the absurd story developing in front of her.
MERMAIDS IN PARADISE can be read as a satire about environmental activism, ecotourism, and even the modern wedding-honeymoon industrial complex. But it doesn't have to be --- it's also just a roaringly hilarious yet genuinely thoughtful story, one that will have readers laughing aloud at lines and situations that are, at times, painfully funny.
Reviewed by Norah Piehl
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
Dive in and enjoy!
By writeoncindy
I love reading Pulitzer Prize Finalist, Lydia Millet’s smart and clever novels. Her new one, MERMAIDS IN PARADISE (WWNorton) includes mermaids, so I was in heaven! No, I’m not Millet’s publicist, nor did I receive a review copy. I just happen to really like mermaids and her book is just that good. KIRKUS calls her ninth novel, MERMAIDS IN PARADISE one of six novels “you must read” by the end of 2014.
Deborah and Chip meet speed dating and soon after, they get married. The LA couple have to decide where they’re going for their honeymoon. Chip wants to cruise with Midwesterners, or trek in the Himalayas, possibly go on a safari, Deb is more a spa kind of gal! They compromise and head off to the British Virgin Islands for some R&R at Paradise Bay Resort in the Caribbean.
Deb prefers time alone with Chip, but he likes making friends and seats them at a couples table where some unfunny-funny business takes place under the table. “”He made me feel like my toes were prostitutes. Like my toes, Chip , were dolled up in Fredericks of Hollywood. That’s not right.” “Your lips say no, but your toes say yes,” said Chip.”
Soon Deb and Chip are out on a boat with a parrot fish expert and discover mermaids. They try to put a lid on the find, but the story gets out to the resort goons who want to capitalize on it, by caging the mermaids in an underwater zoo and turning it into a Theme Park.
Millet weaves her witty dialogue through offbeat storylines including what may or may not be a murder, kidnappers, a former Navy SEAL still on-duty, a popular Japanese VJ in need of a satellite dish, too many muumuus on the beach, and the battle over ecotourism creating a satire guaranteed to entertain. Dare I write, there’s a message, too?
Once reading MERMAIDS IN PARADISE, you’ll want to check out all of her other novels and short story collections. She also writes YA. Check out http://www.lydiamillet.com for all things LYDIA!
I LOVE the cover! Great job Julia Druskin and Chris Welch Design at WWNorton.
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