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Dolly and the Bird of Paradise Hisham Matar that monster on the frontAlso known as Tropical Issue The narrator is a Scots born flower child who has become a celebrity make up artist despite seemingly insurmountable handicaps. She becomes involved with Johnson Johnson in a sometimes deadly, sometimes hilarious, romp across the Atlantic Ocean and various Caribbean islands in pusuit of drug smugglers, who use murder and piracy to gain their ends