Star Island

A hilarious spin on life in the celebrity fast lane from “Florida’s most entertainingly indignant social critic” (New York Times Book Review) and the bestselling author of Squeeze Me.

Meet twenty-two-year-old Cherry Pye (n?e Cheryl Bunterman), a pop star since she was fourteen–and about to attempt a comeback from her latest drug-and-alcohol disaster.

Now meet Cherry again: in the person of her “undercover stunt double,” Ann DeLusia. Ann portrays Cherry whenever the singer is too “indisposed”–meaning wasted–to go out in public. And it is Ann-mistaken-for-Cherry who is kidnapped from a South Beach hotel by obsessed paparazzo Bang Abbott.

Now the challenge for Cherry’s handlers (?ber-stage mother; horndog record producer; nipped, tucked, and Botoxed twin publicists; weed whacker-wielding bodyguard) is to rescue Ann while keeping her existence a secret from Cherry’s public–and from Cherry herself.

The situation is more complicated than they know. Ann has had a bewitching encounter with Skink–the unhinged former governor of Florida living wild in a mangrove swamp–and now he’s heading for Miami to find her….

Will Bang Abbott achieve his fantasy of a lucrative private photo session with Cherry Pye? Will Cherry sober up in time to lip-synch her way through her concert tour? Will Skink track down Ann DeLusia before Cherry’s motley posse does?

Author: Carl Hiaasen
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 09/16/2025
Series: Skink
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.10w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9798217008261
Language: English