Much to her mothers dismay, Carolina girl Livie Green has long resisted the Southern d butante lifestyle, opting instead for cheap cigars, Ernest Hemingway novels, and Jimmy Buffetts early albums. But when her career as a college professor becomes a drudgery of meetings and reports, she realizes that academia might not be for her, either. In a leap of banana-colada fueled faith, she heads to Key West, Florida in search of Buffett and a carefree lifestyle. What she finds instead will reshape and revitalize her life and her heart.