Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas

A bourne-again monkey, a stock market crash, the weather of Seattle, an university in Timbuktu, a Philippine broker, the disappearance of the frogs, a Japanese who invented a cancer cure, a native American who possesses a van-Gogh painting, a fat woman with turban who lays tarot cards and a former successful broker who is know in search for the real meaning of life: these are the ingredients of this Robbins novel.
In search of something, that is what everybody is during the prolonged Easter weekend when the story unfolds: in search of the borne-again monkey which escaped, in search of the tarot woman who disappeared without a trace, in search of a solution for the plunging stock shares, in search of a cure for a rectal cancer,….
I postponed to read it it for a long time, just because a friend of mine told me that it wouldn’t reach the hilariousness of the other ones. I am not sure!