Full name: Whale Season: A Novel

Author: N. M. Kelby Year: 2006 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction, Humor Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780307336781 0307336786

One Christmas Eve, Whale Harbor is visited by a man who thinks he's Jesus and claims to be looking for a game of poker. But, as usual, things are not quite what they seem. Having some version of the Lord in town for his birthday creates a strange effect on the locals: unlikely couples are breaking up and making up and making out; a luxury mobile home that belonged to an elderly couple from New Jersey (until they disappeared after a run-in with "the Lord") is won by a down-on-his-luck gambler in an unbelievable hand of poker; the area's most well-known and long-forgotten tourist attraction is rising up from a hole in the ground; and a gun no one has used in years is suddenly in hot demand. In the steamy climes of southern Florida, you take your miracles where you can get them--and if that means being led to salvation by a schizophrenic with a rap sheet, so be it. Similar books: The Revenge of the Radioactive Lady by Elizabeth Stuckey-French Nine Kinds of Naked by Tony Vigorito Wake Up, Sir! by Jonathan Ames Care of Wooden Floors by Will Wiles Delusions of Grandma by Carrie Fisher The Best a Man Can Get by John O'Farrell Around the World With Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis The Darling Buds of May by H. E. Bates Apathy and Other Small Victories by Paul Neilan The Flamingo Rising by Larry Baker Inconceivable by Ben Elton E by Matt Beaumont The Psycho Ex Game by Merrill Markoe Between the Bridge and the River by Craig Ferguson Love and Other Near-Death Experiences by Mil Millington The Fairy Gunmother by Daniel Pennac Riotous Assembly by Tom Sharpe Indecent Exposure by Tom Sharpe Missing Links by Rick Reilly The Year of the Hare by Arto Paasilinna