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Staph

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12. I reading my first Carl Hiaasen book, Squeeze Me.
Sun Mar 27, 2022, 01:22 PM
Mar 2022

It's a hoot!

At the height of Palm Beach’s charity ball season, Kiki Pew Fitzsimmons, a prominent member of geriatric high society, suddenly vanishes during a swank gala. Kiki Pew was a founding member of the Potussies, a group of women dedicated to supporting the President, who spends half the year at the “Winter White House” just down the road. Meanwhile, Angie Armstrong, wildlife wrangler extraordinaire, is called to the island to deal with a monster-sized Burmese python that has taken residency in a tree. But the President is focused on the disappearance of Kiki Pew. Never one to miss an opportunity to play to his base, he immediately declares her a victim of rampaging immigrant hordes. This, it turns out, is far from the truth, which now lies in the middle of the road, where a bizarre discovery brings the First Lady’s motorcade to a grinding halt. Irreverent, ingenious, and uproariously entertaining, Squeeze Me perfectly captures the absurdity of our times.


Published in 2020, TFG is an unnamed minor character in the book, when he is in residence in Casa Bellicosa, sending badly misspelled tweets and followed by a giddy group of rich senior women who called themselves the POTUS Pussies, or Potussies. Hiaasen seems to have the same view of the former guy as the rest of DU.

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