The nar­ra­tor of Sara Levine’s debut nov­el has a dead end job, a lack­lus­ter boyfriend, and no sense of pur­pose in life. Then she reads Robert Louis Stevenson’s clas­sic Trea­sure Island and decides to fol­low in the foot­steps of Jim Hawkins. Her best friend is flum­moxed (“Isn’t it a boys’ book?”), her sis­ter hor­ri­fied (“I hate a book with no girls in it”), and her par­ents are more than a lit­tle con­fused when she moves back home, $900 Ama­zon par­rot on her shoul­der, espous­ing the novel’s Core Val­ues: Bold­ness, Res­o­lu­tion, Inde­pen­dence, and Horn Blow­ing. Deter­mined to be the hero of her own life, the delud­ed nar­ra­tor mis­takes rude­ness for bold­ness and tyr­an­nizes friends and fam­i­ly with her ​“courage,” until one day she unleash­es a fam­i­ly secret that threat­ens to cap­size them all. Described by the crit­ics as ​“addic­tive,” ​“sub­ver­sive,” ​“rock­et-fast,” ​“inti­mate,” ​“smart,” ​“high­ly orig­i­nal,” and ​“fun­ny fun­ny fun­ny,” Trea­sure Island!!! rein­vents the Jew­ish fam­i­ly nov­el for a new gen­er­a­tion. The Dai­ly For­ward writes: ​“It is rare to find … a book that man­ages to feel both com­plete­ly new and simul­ta­ne­ous­ly con­nect­ed to Jew­ish cul­tur­al life. Yet this is exact­ly what Sara Levine has accom­plished.”