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Mermaids, kidnappers, and mercenaries hijack a tropical vacation in this genre-bending sendup of the American honeymoon.On the grounds of a Caribbean island resort, newlyweds Deb and Chipour opinionated, skeptical narrator and her cheerful jock husband whos friendly to a faultmeet a marine biologist who says shes sighted mermaids in a coral reef.As the resorts parent company swoops in to corner the market on mythological creatures, the couple joins forces with other adventurous souls, including an exNavy 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 Millets funniest book yet, tempering the sharp satire of her early career with the empathy and subtlety of her more recent novels and short stories.
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Lydia Millet is a novelist and short-story writer known for her dark humor, idiosyncratic characters and language, and strong interest in the relationship between humans and other animals. Born in Boston, she grew up in Toronto and now lives outside Tucson, Arizona with her two children, where she writes and works in wildlife conservation. Sometimes called a "novelist of ideas," Millet won the PEN-USA award for fiction for her early novel My Happy Life (2002) ; in 2010, her story collection Love in Infant Monkeys was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. In 2008, 2011, and 2012 she published three novels in a critically acclaimed series about extinction and personal loss: How the Dead Dream, Ghost Lights, and Magnificence. 2014 saw the publication of her first book for young-adult readers, Pills and Starships; this was followed by Mermaids in Paradise, a satire about a couple honeymooning in the Caribbean. Sweet Lamb of Heaven, a psychological thriller about a woman in hiding from her estranged husband, was published in May 2016.
