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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

A romp with sharp teeth... a slapstick variation on Millet's abiding theme: the relationship between human beings and the natural world.--Laura Miller

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

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

[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.

With equal parts calculated wryness and pleading earnestness, [Millet] delivers a thrilling piece of fabulist fiction.

A hilarious genre-bender that strikes some serious chords.--Jane Ciabattari

Suspenseful, philosophical, and tropical--the funniest you'll ever read on ecotourism and the wisest you'll ever read on mermaids.--Natalie Beach

[A] deft satire... Millet ramps up the suspense.--Melissa Maerz

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

Deb and Chip, a couple honeymooning at a Caribbean resort, meet a marine biologist who claims to have sighted mermaids at a nearby coral reef, and join with other adventurers to protect the mermaids when the resort reveals plans to build a theme park on the reef.