A New York Times Bestseller A Pulitzer Prize-winning AuthorThe Extravaganza of the Seas is a 5,000-ton cash cow, a top-heavy tub whose sole function is to carry gamblers three miles from the Florida coast, take their money, then bring them back so they can find moe money. On board one night, a wildly diverse group of people finds themselves in the middle of a tropical storm in this astonishing, wickedly satisfying, all-too-human story.