Mimi

A whirlwind Manhattan romance like you've never read before from the Booker Prize nominated author of Ducks, Newburyport. It's Christmas Eve in Manhattan. An eminent plastic surgeon slips on the ice, lands on his butt, and sprains his ankle. So far, so good. A woman such as he's never known yanks him to his feet and conjures the miracle of a taxi. Harrison recuperates with Franz Schubert, Bette Davis, and a foundling cat. Then it's back to rhinoplasties, liposuction, and the peccadilloes of his obnoxious colleagues. It is only when he collides again with that strangely helpful woman that things take a wild and revolutionary turn. Sparkling, polemical, irreverent, slippery, and sexy, Mimi is a love story, a call to arms, and Lucy Ellmann's most tender and dazzling book. It's also the feminist novel of the century. (So far.)

About the Author :
Lucy Ellmann, born in the United States, was later completely and unnecessarily transported to England. She has written the novels: Ducks, Newburyport, longlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize; Mimi; Sweet Desserts, winner of the 1988 Guardian Fiction Prize; Varying Degrees of Hopelessness; Man or Mango? A Lament; and Dot in the Universe. The last two were both nominated for the Orange Prize for Fiction.

Review :
[A] batty and highly amusing screed of a novel... a narrative that perfectly showcases the author's eccentric talents: her knack for turning rage into zany humor; her daft but feisty misanthropy; her ability to extract poignancy and even lyricism from ridiculous and scatological situations. At its best Dot in the Universe reads like [Larry] David, Tracey Ullman and Will Self channeling Jonathan Swift; by turns scathing, self-pitying and operatic, the novel manages to be manic, nutty and Rabelaisian all at the same time... [A] thoroughly unstoppable voice. [A] filthy, hilarious, and absolutely furious little novel.... The mad plot--affair, betrayal, murder--is just a vehicle for Ellmann's stunning riffs on everything from the language of handbags to drainage... [A]strange and fascinating book. Deliciously subversive... Ellmann is better than just clever. She is a genuinely (if sneakily) humane novelist. And she surprises us by making us care about Dot... Ironic observation turns to uncanny wisdom... Dot waxes and wanes as a character, but Ellmann emerges as a voice of clarity and reason.