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Nature Girl
Honey Santana decides a rude telemarketer needs a lesson in manners, delivered during a trip through Florida’s Ten Thousand Islands. Her ex-husband and former boss follow, while their destination already shelters people with troubles of their own.
From the author’s blurb
“one woman’s single-handed quest to eradicate greed and enforce civility”Read the full description at Author book description, Carl Hiaasen
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What makes it funny?
When Honey threatens to disinherit her son if he becomes a telemarketer, Fry looks around their trailer and mourns his trust fund. His practical objections make a running obstacle to her righteous fury.
The comedy at work
A dinner interruption grows into an elaborate wilderness expedition. Hiaasen crowds the island with pursuers whose private agendas keep interfering with Honey’s lesson.
Try this if…
A revenge fantasy for anyone driven to distraction by a sales call, with family repartee and an increasingly crowded farce. Kirkus found the plot’s complications exhausting.
Good to know
The opening includes workplace sexual assault, violent retaliation and corpse disposal. Profanity and a portrayal of mental illness also figure in the story.
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