Treasure Island!!!

A General Fiction Novel by Sara Levine

Subgenres:

Literary Satire,
Coming-of-Age,
Obsessive Fiction

Published 2011

Length 169 pages

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This book is for you if you're into...

Offbeat quests inspired by classic literature
Messy family dynamics with a side of pet mischief
Narrators who take self-reinvention way too far

Publisher Description

A young slacker decides to live her life according to Robert Louis Stevenson's classic adventure. When a college graduate with a history of hapless jobs (ice cream scooper, gift wrapper, laziest ever part-time clerk at The Pet Library) reads Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island, she is dumbstruck by the timid design of her life.

When had she ever dreamed a scheme? When had she ever done a foolish, overbold act? When had she ever, like Jim Hawkins, broken from her friends, raced for the beach, stolen a boat, killed a man, and eliminated an obstacle that stood in the way of her getting a hunk of gold?

Convinced that Stevenson's book is cosmically intended for her, she redesigns her life according to its Core Values: boldness, resolution, independence, and horn-blowing. Accompanied by her mother, her sister, and a hostile Amazon parrot that refuses to follow the script, our heroine embarks on a domestic adventure more frightening than anything she'd originally planned.

Treasure Island!!! is the story of a ferocious obsession, told by an original voice.

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