Name: Hurricane Girl
ISBN: 9780593320884

Marcy Dermansky

"The story of a woman on the run from catastrophe, searching for love, home, healing, a swimming pool, and perhaps someone who can stop the bleeding from her head"--

A Novel

Hurricane Girl

Iris

Money mattered so much to other people. Allison could never understand rich people, for instance, always wanting more, working, running for political office, raking in astronomical, immoral salaries, instead of going to the beach, going for a swim. They could live on an island. Snorkel every day. Donate money to the needy. Eat well. That was what she would do. If she was rich. 

I think this book was a drag as an audiobook and that maybe I don’t support unhinged female characters in books as much as I may in a movie.

A propulsive and daring new novel by the author of Very Nice about a woman on the run from catastrophe, searching for love, home, a swimming pool, and for someone who can perhaps stop the bleeding from her head. Allison Brody is thirty-two and newly arrived on the East Coast after just managing to flee her movie producer boyfriend. She has some money, saved up from years of writing and waitressing, and so she spends it, buying a small house on the beach. But then a Category 3 hurricane makes landfall and scatters her home up and down the shore, leaving Allison adrift. Should she go home from the bar with the strange cameraman and stay in his guest room? Is that a glass vase he smashed on her skull? Can she wipe the blood from her eyes, get in her car, and drive to her mother’s? Does she really love the brain surgeon who saved her, or is she just using him for his swimming pool? And is it possible to ever truly heal without seeking some measure of revenge? A gripping, provocative novel that walks a knife’s edge between comedy and horror, Hurricane Girl is the work of a singular talent, a novelist unafraid to explore the intersection of love, sex, violence, and freedom—while celebrating the true joy that can be found in a great swim and a good turkey sandwich.

A novel

When the book has an unreliable narrator and a woman that needs to heal but seeks revenge instead >>>>

Christina Rose Sullivan

Lara Engle

This is a weird little book. I feel like saying too much would spoil it. It's melancholy and funny and horrifying, yet somehow hopeful. I liked it.

Alexa M

3.5 

Quirky and odd and fun! I liked it. Add to the Unhinged Girl list <3

it was hard for me not to compare this book to my year of rest and relaxation. I thought I would laugh a lot more and feel a lot more for this depressed disconnected unlikable main character, but I was mostly just annoyed and bored. Character was def relatable in some parts and I really felt for her as the book neared its end.

It could be cathartic and pretty satisfying for some, but I was mostly relieved to be done.

Mindi

it was hard for me not to compare this book to my year of rest and relaxation. I thought I would laugh a lot more and feel a lot more for this depressed disconnected unlikable main character, but I was mostly just annoyed and bored. Character was def relatable in some parts and I really felt for her as the book neared its end.

It could be cathartic and pretty satisfying for some, but I was mostly relieved to be done.

Hurricane Girl A Novel

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