Christopher Moore has developed a reputation for being outrageous, after all, this is the guy who wrote Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal, a hilarious "other side of the story" novel narrated by a fictional best friend who is Jesus' opposite in every way. Moore creates another whopper of a tale with Island of the Sequined Love Nun, featuring Tucker Case, a pilot who has just about the worst luck ever. His father dies suddenly, his mother marries his uncle, and Tucker, in a fit of grief over it, accidentally runs over and kills his one true love's father. His unlucky streak continues when he crashes his employer Mary Jean's (with a strong likeness to Mary Kay of the cosmetics fortune) plane when he takes a hooker for a flight after he's had a number of gin and tonics. This is all in the first few pages! Tucker thinks his luck has changed when he gets a sudden offer from a doctor with a missionary practice on a remote Micronesian island. So remote, in fact, that it didn't get included in the Micronesian government.
Tucker worries that the offer is too good to be true . . . you'll have to read to decide for yourself. You'll encounter a cargo cult who worships a now deceased pilot named Vincent, an old blind cannibal in serious denial, and the psychopathic wife of the doctor who changes personalities like underwear. Island of the Sequined Love Nun is a fast-paced, extremely funny, and extremely unbelievable story that you won't want to end!
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