What with everyone and their dog seeming to be watching “Tiger King” on Netflix at the moment, I thought that perhaps bringing attention to a new novel that also takes the world of private zoos in the south-eastern United States as an element in its central plot – or at least, that’s where it begins – might be in order.
Suzie Gilbert’s Unflappable follows the adventures of licensed wildlife rehabilitator Luna Burke as she attempts to smuggle an adult American Bald Eagle from her husband’s private zoo in Florida to a sanctuary in Canada.
Described as “Carl Hiaasen meets Thelma & Louise” (just stop and contemplate that juxtaposition for a moment…), it “is a funny, dark, sexy, suspenseful adventure with a big cast of unconventional characters, both human and not” – as well as the first book ever to be included in The Well-read Naturalist that anyone has ever described as “sexy.”
