Nature Girl (novel)

Nature Girl

Cover of the first edition of Nature Girl
Author	Carl Hiaasen
Cover artist	Charles Burns
Country	United States
Language	English
Publisher	Alfred A. Knopf
Publication date	2006
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages	306 pp.
ISBN
Preceded by	Skinny Dip
Followed by	Star Island

Nature Girl is a caper drama satire by Carl Hiaasen first published in 2006.

Honey Santana becomes irritated by telemarketers and invites a particularly obnoxious one to a phony real estate promotion - which she describes as an eco-tour - in the Ten Thousand Islands in order to teach him a lesson. It is thus that telemarketers Boyd Shreave and his reluctant mistress Eugenie Fonda make their way from Texas to Dismal Key in Florida with Honey, unaware that she is being stalked by Louis Piejack, Honey's perverted and disfigured ex-employer, who is unaware that he is being followed by Fry, Honey's wise and protective twelve-year-old son, and his courageous ex-drug runner father. Also on the island are a young half-Seminole man named Sammy Tigertail and his very willing captive, Gillian, a sex-obsessed, warmhearted Florida State coed. Various odd events surface along the way.

Single mother Honey Santana is out of work again, having hit her lecherous boss, Louis Piejack, after he sexually molested her in the workplace. In the middle of dinner, Honey receives a call from telemarketer Boyd Shreave, in Fort Worth, Texas, trying to sell her a cheap parcel of land. Honey declines, and touches a nerve by asking Boyd if his mother knows what he does for a living (she does, and does not approve). Boyd loses his temper and calls her a nasty name, making her obsessed with tracking him down to teach him a lesson.

Sammy Tigertail, a young half-Seminole, needs a place to hide. A drunken tourist has just died of a heart attack in the middle of an airboat ride. Misconstruing some advice from his Uncle Tommy, he dumps the tourist’s body in the river and leaves the reservation to camp in the Islands. He has brought along an authentic Gibson Super 400 electric guitar, having always wanted to teach himself how to play. His solitude is interrupted by a group of college students having a drunken party. He is about to steal one of their canoes and find another island, when one of the students, a girl named Gillian, discovers him and wants to come along for the adventure. When she threatens to wake the others, Sammy has no choice but to take her with him.