Blue skies : a novel
(Book)

"Denied a dog, a baby, and even a faithful fiancé, Cat suddenly craves a snake: a glistening, writhing creature that can be worn like 'jewelry, living jewelry' to match her black jeans. But when the budding social media star promptly loses the young 'Burmie' she buys from a local pet store, she inadvertently sets in motion a chain of increasingly dire and outrageous events that comes to threaten her very survival....[This novel] transports us to water-logged and heat-ravaged coastal America, where Cat and her hapless, nature-loving family—including her eco-warrior parents, Ottilie and Frank; her brother, Cooper, an entomologist; and her frat-boy-turned-husband, Todd—are struggling to adapt to the 'new normal,' in which once-in-a-lifetime natural disasters happen once a week and drinking seems to be the only way to cope." --publisher's website