Purchase

Amazon

Barnes & Noble

Books-A-Million

Indie BookShop

Add to Wish List

Also by Michael Lee West:

Gone With A Handsomer Man, February 2012
Paperback / e-Book
Gone With A Handsomer Man, April 2011
Hardcover
Mermaids in the Basement, January 2008
Hardcover
Mad Girls in Love, July 2006
Paperback
Crazy Ladies, July 2005
Paperback
Consuming Passions, April 2000
Paperback
American Pie, October 1997
Paperback
She Flew the Coop, May 1995
Paperback

MERMAIDS IN THE BASEMENT
By: Michael Lee West

Harper
January 2008
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Featuring: Renata DeChavannes
304 pages
ISBN: 0060184051
EAN: 9780060184056
Hardcover
Add to Wish List

Fiction

The beloved bestselling author of Crazy Ladies returns with a funny and poignant tale that explores the complex bonds between a daughter and her father.

Reeling from the loss of her mother, plagued with a bad case of writer's block (and don't even talk about that extra twenty pounds), Renata DeChavannes feels as though everything is just plain wrong. And that was before the tabloids caught her sweetheart, filmmaker Ferg Lauderdale, sharing an intimate squeeze with Hollywood's hottest young tamale.

But the granddaughter of the formidable Honora DeChavannes possesses more hell than belle in her backbone—and she's about to reclaim it. Heading south to Honora's home on the Gulf Coast, Renata is determined to stop feeling like a wilted gardenia and emerge as the unstoppable kudzu her beloved grandmother proudly proclaimed she would be: "I'll just tell you, Sherman may have burned the South, but kudzu will engulf it." But for that to happen Renata's got to face some not-so-genteel ghosts from her past, discover the truth about the mother she desperately misses, and make peace with the first man who abandoned her and broke her heart—her handsome and distant father.