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Florida-Grown Fiction: Hiaasen Satirizes The Sunshine State

NPR
Published August 29, 2014 at 1:14 PM EDT

Novelist and Miami Herald columnist Carl Hiaasen writes with passion and purpose about the state he loves. His latest book, Bad Monkey, is an offbeat murder mystery set in Key West.

Originally broadcast June 13, 2013.

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