I borrowed this book, Island of the Sequined Love Nun, from one of my ComedySportz troupemates, without quite knowing what I was getting into. What I found was an hilarious trip that had plane crashes, hard luck stories, and off-kilter romance. If Clive Cussler wrote chick lit, this would be it.
The main character, Tuck, is a pilot for a company that is clearly supposed to be Mary Kay cosmetics, right down to pervasive use of the color pink. He crashes the plane, gets sent to a tropical island that is loosely affiliated with the Federated States of Micronesia, meets a male drag queen prostitute and a talking bat, and ends up involved with a doctor and his wife, who has taken on the role of the Sky Priestess for a tribe of natives who have become a cargo cult.
At times poignant, sad, funny, exciting, action-packed, horrifying, and romantic, sometimes all at once this book is a must read for anyone who has ever thought that chick-lit needs more gunfights.
I heart Christopher Moore! I forgot how I discovered him, it was in the 1990s sometime. I actually met him at a booksigning in Phoenix once, when I was out there visiting a friend ;-) You can see a pic here (at the bottom): http://www.geocities.com/tokyo/harbor/5896/phoenix99.html
I think my fav by him is “A Dirty Job: A Novel”; LOVE the squirrels!