Description:
From a PEN Award-winning author, an engrossing, darkly humorous, edge-of-your-seat novel--featuring a seven foot iguana.
Review Quotes: "The Care and Feeding of Exotic Pets tilts on Winnie's strength. In her, Wagman has constructed a magnetic figure who is easy to root for...The book also benefits from breathless pace and a dialogue-heavy structure that hints at Wagman's screenwriting experience and keeps the pages turning."-Los Angeles Times
"...tense and fast-paced."-Wall Street Journal "Wagman's talent for imagery is well served by the subject matter, and the story is perfectly paced, with humorous breaks in the tension. A PEN Center USA Award winner (for Spontaneous), Wagman has crafted an unusual thriller for psychological crime devotees and fans of the peculiar."-Publishers Weekly "Told from multiple points of view--everybody but the iguana is represented--the novel is a darkly humorous and occasionally violent exercise in suspense, and a dramatic exposition of the Stockholm syndrome. Wagman does a nice job of lending her characters psychological depth and creating a fast-paced, readable plot."-Booklist "Wagman's (Bump; Spontaneous; Skin Deep) fourth novel shines is in its complex character development. She gives readers an in-depth, realistic look at the psychological factors motivating her characters, from the shallowness of the celebrities to the insecurities of the teenagers."-Library Journal "Wagman has crafted a dark, funny and sensitive thriller that might be the first of its kind: the Oedipal abduction tale."-Book Page "Dark, absurd and hysterically funny."-LA Magazine