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Subtitled A True Story of Love, Obsession and Shipwreck. Maladroit Maurice weds determined Madalyn in England and they hatched a dream of sailing away to escape their stultifying lives.They saved, they studied, they provisioned, and all was going well until a wayward whale upended their boat in the Pacific. Left with a raft, a dinghy, and what supplies they could scoop up as the boat sank, it was 117 days until a Korean ship rescued them. Turns out Madalyn, as Maurice attested, was the heroine, keeping them alive as his spirits sank and their condition worsened. They got lots of attention and acclaim afterwards, but it did’t last and their subsequent life was pedestrian and melancholy. Perhaps the pleasure I got from this read was: at least it wasn’t me!
Real-life doings in the state of Florida are already outrageous, but Hiassen knows how to carry them giant-steps further in this rollicking novel. Viva is renting a room from Figgo who’s hatching plans for a right-wing uprising. She connects with Twilly, a very eccentric environmentalist who’s extremely well-fixed but lives poor. Many nutty characters come into play, including Viva’s employers, an old couple who fund all sorts of crackpot endeavors. Can you believe Figgo’s organization is called the Strokers for Liberty? Lots of gross humor in this book which for me is a tonic in these troubled times. And underneath, not all that far from the truth.
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