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Florida Woman
Florida Woman: A Novel | Deb Rogers
5 posts | 6 read | 10 to read
My kind of book. I loved it. Joe Exotic, star of Netflix series Tiger King "I couldn't put it down." Jenny Lawson, bestselling author of Lets Pretend This Never Happened A gleefully dark and entertaining debut for fans of Kevin Wilson and Karen Russell, about one young womans sensational summer at a Floridian wildlife center for exotic monkeys Jamie is a Florida Woman. She grew up on the beach, thrives in humidity, has weathered more hurricanes than she can count, and now, after going viral for an outrageous crime she never meant to commit in the first place, she has the requisite headline to her name. But when the chance comes for her to escape viral infamy and imminent jail time by taking a community service placement at Atlas, a shelter for rescued monkeys, it seems like just the fresh start Jamie needs to finally get her life back on track until its not. Something sinister stirs in the palmetto woods surrounding her cabin, and secrets lurk among the three beguiling women who run the shelter and affectionately take Jamie under their wing for the summer. She hears the distant screams of monkeys each night; the staff perform cryptic, lakeside sacrifices to honor Atlas; and the land, which has long been abandoned by citrus farmers and theme park developers alike, now proves to be dangerously, relentlessly untamed. As Jamie ventures deeper into the offbeat world and rituals of Atlas, her summer is soon set to inspire an even stranger Florida headline than she ever couldve imagined.
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CoffeeNBooks
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It's a beautiful October day here in Florida, and I'm excited to start reading this! 🌞

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K.Wielechowski
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Panpan

I‘m not sure why but I was expecting something a bit more funny and ridiculous. This was not it. If I hadn‘t read it in one sitting, I probably wouldn‘t have finished it. Basically Tiger King but with women and monkeys.
Jamie got community service and chose to work at a monkey sanctuary where shit goes sideways in the most terrible ways.
Page 15 onward I regularly screamed “ITS A CULT!!”
Finished 9/5/2022

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Linsy
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Pickpick

Watching Deb Rogers on #fantasticstrangelings right now! I'm cracking up!! This book had the most lush descriptions of the Florida jungle. Despite the creepy crawlies, it made me want to visit — just in the daytime, with backup.🌴

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Hooked_on_books
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Mehso-so

Jamie had a bit of an accidental crime happen but instead of jail, she landed a house arrest at a macaque reserve in Florida. The people there are a little kooky and she‘s pretty sure more is going on than she‘s being told. This has a lot of potential and could have been fun, but for me the humor missed the mark and it just ending up being a little weird and silly.

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GerardtheBookworm
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Pickpick

A dark comedy that puts a little Carl Hiaasen in the mix. A viral mishap puts Jamie serving community service at a Floridian monkey sanctuary run by a group of eccentric women. Things go south when Jamie discovers secrets about the place that goes awry. Ironically, Tiger King Joe Exotic blurbed this so you're in for a wild ride!