SeaSick: Gloria Nagy’s new novel


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The reigning Queen of the “Cruise of a Lifetime” industry, the Palace of the Dolphins, is preparing to embark on one of its most successful water bourne Milk Runs; a Seven Day Caribbean Cruise beginning and ending in San Juan.

Exhaustion, energy and tension swirl together between the embarking passengers, the stressed out crew and the entertainment staff. This is a true Ship of Fools, a large cast of enticing, complex characters who are about to set off into the Puerto Rican sunset on a journey that will push everyone to their human limits and take the reader on a seven day journey of hilarity, tragedy, riveting suspense, keen social satire and a plot, laid out like a Chinese box, stacking piece on piece from the first page to the shocking and impossible to predict climax.

The burned out and partied out Cruise Director, Derrick Doolittle; the aging, but still popular star of their musical productions, Flora Frampton; the wise-cracking, but tormented head show writer, Rory Riley; the billionaire owners, The Talbotts and their spoiled party girl daughter Twinkle; their guests, Mimsie Von Essen the ‘Countess’ from Texas and her grandson Ian and Leah, Walter and Clarissa Worth, the ‘perfect’ family, who don’t quite belong in the Talbotts world; Poe Evanoff, the brilliant psychiatrist and guest lecturer; Elonzito, the newly promoted Portuguese butler, assigned to serve the VIPS, none of whom have any idea what this voyage will reveal.