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I just finished reading Carl Hiaasen’s latest, ‘Squeeze Me’ and, as you might expect, it is hilarious! It’s character’s include a certain, orange-hued president and a group of wealthy, adoring ‘older’ Palm Beach widows who call themselves the ‘Potus Pussies’ or ‘Potussies’ for the general public, who serenade mastodon with ‘Sweet Unimpeachable You’.

Hiassen does a great job depicting the President who loves his secret service code name, ‘Mastadon’ so much that he asks to be taken to the zoo to see some mastodons. The President spends a lot of time at his winter white house – ‘Casa Bellicosa’ along with his statuesque wife, code-named ‘Mockingbird’.

One of the potussies, a certain Kiki Pew Fitzsimmons gets a little drunk at a gala for the IBS Wellness Foundation – a group given to defeating irritable bowel syndrome globally, and gets eaten by a python.

Hiassen’s heroine, Angie, is a critter-remover who is summoned to catch the python (and many other things) but there is a coverup and things get very complicated and very funny.

Hiaasen has lots of fun with names including Kiki’s best friend, Fay Alex Riptoad of the ‘compost and iron ore’ Riptoads. There are also the McMarmots, Yarma Skyy Frick of the ‘personal lubricant’ Fricks and numerous charity events including the Psoriatic Gingivitis Gala and the Peyronie’s Syndrome Ball. It’s all amazing and there’s not a page that doesn’t leave you laughing.

So if things are getting you down, go get this book! You’ll love it!!