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Greetings From Jamaica, Wish You Were Queer (Amazon book review)

This review is from:  Greetings From Jamaica, Wish You Were Queer (Paperback) One of the principles I live by is "never really take back-cover blurbs seriously," so when I read the "Warning: This Book May Have You Laughing Out Loud in Public" blurb in Mari SanGiovanni's debut novel "Greetings From Jamaica, Wish You Were Queer," I (a) rolled my eyes in the universal "yeah, right" expression and (b) took it as a challenge to read it and not laugh, be touched, or even be turned on just a little bit. Aside from a few books by Dave Barry and Douglas Adams' five book Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy, I don't, as a rule, read too many comedic novels. Either I never have time to do so, or when I do, I don't find them very funny. Good thing, then, that I came upon a copy of Mari's wonderfully zany novel about an attractive, witty, bright, talented, if somewhat eccentric lesbian writer, Marie Santora, whose zany Italian-A