Treasure Island!!!, by Sara Levine

Treasure Island!!!, by Sara Levine.  Europa Editions, 2012.  172 pp.  978-1-60945-061-8.

... in which a young woman takes Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island as her own personal life guide and adopts its Core Values (boldness, resolution, independence, and horn-blowing) as her own guiding principles.

Treasure Island!!! follows the adventures of a 25-year-old woman (who has no name, as far as I can tell).  After graduating with a degree in English, our unnamed anti-heroine works a series of jobs like ice cream scooper, gift wrapper, and clerk at The Pet Library (where you actually go to borrow pets).  One day she picks up a copy of Treasure Island and finds herself transformed by the book.  She decides to adopt the book as the guide for how her life should go, and tries to model her life after Jim Hawkins' adventures on the high seas with Long John Silver.  Starting with the ill-advised decision to buy herself a parrot, the main character proceeds to wreak havoc on her life, and the lives of the people around her.