Tuesday, July 9, 2024

Squeeze Me by Carl Hiaasen

 

Carl Hiaasen writing about implausible criminal antics in Florida is always a good time, and a novel where he turns that slightly loopy ferocity on a certain artificially-colored commander in chief and veers from comedy to satire ... that's good stuff. This is not a novel written by someone who particularly likes things as they are, but it's also clearly a novel written by someone who sees the possibility of better things, better outcomes: I remember reading someone saying something to the effect that in order to write satire well you needed to be both angry and hopeful, and Hiassen is definitely both, here.

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