If winter has left you feeling more than a little grumpy and cooped up, you might consider one of the fun and fantastical reads in today’s post as we dream of Spring! Mermaids in Paradise, by Lydia Millet, makes the top of my list: smart, funny, slightly wacky, and in the end, deeply moving.  Actual mermaids make several (underwater) appearances in this novel, set in …

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