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In this darkly hilarious satire by the inimitable Will Aitken, class war erupts aboard a luxury cruise ship.
A boatload of white privilege, the Emerald Tranquility is the most luxurious cruise liner afloat, its passengers some of the richest people in the world. Meanwhile the ship’s crew, overworked and underpaid, live packed tightly together in airless below-deck cabins.
Briony, globetrotting luxury travel writer, emulates the rich—though homeless and penniless herself—as she hops from gig to all-expenses-paid gig.
The passengers encounter a great number of cataclysms at sea, but no matter the catastrophe, the great ship always sails on.
On her own personal voyage, Briony encounters Mrs. Moore, an enigmatic old woman clandestinely fomenting a mutiny on this bountiful ship. With the captain overthrown, roles quickly reverse: the crew become the ship’s new leisure class and the aged passengers learn how to mop floors and scrub toilets.
Briony, confused and terrified by the resultant chaos, must decide which lot to cast her fate with, in this savage satire of the way we live now.
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“Strap on your Mae West: this voyage is an archly, artfully, uproariously breezy yet incisive dark delight.”
— Gary Barwin, author of Yiddish for Pirates
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“A brilliantly acerbic upstairs-downstairs satire of class and privilege on the high seas.”
— Jordan Tannahill, author of Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist The Listeners -
“A stinging, darkly veiled satire that left me laughing and thinking long after I turned the last page.”
— Terry Fallis, author of Albatross: A Novel -
“An engaging narration by Eva Kaminsky.”
— AudioFile
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About Will Aitken
Will Aitken has written three novels—Realia, A Visit Home, Terre Haute—and the nonfiction book Death in Venice: A Queer Film Classic and Antigone Undone: Juliette Binoche, Anne Carson, Ivo van Hove, and the Art of Resistance, which was shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction. He lives in Montreal.
About Eva Kaminsky
Eva Kaminsky is a New York–based actor and audiobook narrator with over 150 titles to her credit. She trained at Boston University and has acted in numerous productions on television and film, including Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Happyish, Ugly Betty, ER, Numbers, Law & Order, and others.