Treasure Island!!!, Sara Levine

A young slacker decides to live her life according to Robert Louis Stevenson's classic adventure.

"The 50 Best Contemporary Novels under 200 Pages" —Lithub 
"A rollicking tale, shameless, funny and intelligent" —The New York Times 
 
"Why don't you throw yourself headlong into the TORNADO OF CHAOS that is the protagonist of Sara Levine's Treasure Island!!! — especially if you enjoyed the television program Fleabag?" —Molly Young, Vulture

"As she careens from one self-created disaster to another, the narrator is unrepentant...and that makes an already incisive and intelligent novel even more compelling." —Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist

When a college graduate with a history of hapless jobs (ice cream scooper, gift wrapper, laziest ever part-time clerk at The Pet Library) reads Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island, she is dumbstruck by the timid design of her life. When had she ever dreamed a scheme? When had she ever done a foolish, overbold act? When had she ever, like Jim Hawkins, broken from her friends, raced for the beach, stolen a boat, killed a man, and eliminated an obstacle that stood in the way of her getting a hunk of gold?
Convinced that Stevenson's book is cosmically intended for her, she redesigns her life according to its Core Values: boldness, resolution, independence, and horn-blowing. Accompanied by her mother, her sister, and a hostile Amazon parrot that refuses to follow the script, our heroine embarks on a domestic adventure more frightening than anything she'd originally planned. Treasure Island!!! is the story of a ferocious obsession, told by an original voice.