Honey Santana—impassioned, willful, possibly bipolar, self-proclaimed “queen of lost causes”—has a scheme to help rid the world of irresponsibility, indifference, and dinnertime sales calls. She’s taking rude, gullible Relentless, Inc., telemarketer Boyd Shreave and his less-than-enthusiastic mistress, Eugenie—the fifteen-minute-famous girlfriend of a tabloid murderer—into the wilderness of … of Florida’s Ten Thousand Islands for a gentle lesson in civility. What she doesn’t know is that she’s being followed by her Honey-obsessed former employer, Piejack (whose mismatched fingers are proof that sexual harassment in the workplace is a bad idea). And he doesn’t know he’s being followed by Honey’s still-smitten former drug-running ex-husband, Perry, and their wise-and-protective-way-beyond-his-years twelve-year-old-son, Fry. And when they all pull up on Dismal Key, they don’t know they’re intruding on Sammy Tigertail, a half white–half Seminole failed alligator wrestler, trying like hell to be a hermit despite the Florida State coed who’s dying to be his hostage . . .
Will Honey be able to make a mensch of a “greedhead”? Will Fry be able to protect her from Piejack—and herself? Will Sammy achieve his true Seminole self? Will Eugenie ever get to the beach? Will the Everglades survive the wild humans? All the answers are revealed in the delectably outrageous mayhem that propels this novel to its Hiaasen-of-the-highest-order climax.
BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Carl Hiaasen’s Bad Monkey.
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Nature Girl — Where to begin? An engaging, complicated plot with vintage Hiaasen weirdness, crazy characters and twists and turns. Think your life is complicated? Wait until you read Nature Girl. An extremely entertaining read.
This one has an interesting cast of characters:
Honey -a zany mom who takes no crap from anyone and is currently taking a break from her meds
Perry – Honey’s ex who has done time but will still go to great lengths to look out for the woman he was once married to
Boyd- a sleazy telemarketer who appreciates nothing in life
Eugenie – the woman Boyd …
Good read for Hiaasen fans. Like all his books, an entertaining read that you don’t want to put down.
good read
Lots of humor. Fun topic.
Not his best but damn good.
Hiassen is awesome
This is vintage Hiassen.
Love all of his books!
Hiaasen is one of the funniest writers out there.
I always Carl Hiasson’s books
Buzzard even for Hiassen.
Typical Hiaasen. Hilarious, silly and pointless.
I can’t get enough of his books. They keep me thinking about the next and the next. I love humor in a good novel and Carl has it all.
Hiaasen at his hysterical best
Couldn’t wait for these banal characters to leave the page. Left the book when the author described them as “card-carryin’ fruit-balls”
Hiaasen always has such interesting characters.
Boyd Shreve fails at nearly everything he does. His current job as a telemarketer hits rough waters when he calls Honey Santana during supper. Honey has had too many supper interruptions and goes off on Boyd. She tracks him down and turns the tables on him by pretending to be a telemarketer herself. She sends him two tickets to south Florida to …
Carl Hiassen always entertains!
Anither ihilarous nio el about the decadenso. OFFla. Lsugh out loud funny. A must read for fla residence