[1][2] Con artist and thief Marsha "Liarmouth" Sprinkle orchestrates a heist at the Baltimore/Washington International Airport with her partner in crime Daryl, to whom she has promised sex once a year.

The novel's is characterized by a loose plot, which according to The New York Times "unfurls as a tangled ribbon of manic events untouched by the logic of cause and effect.

[6] Molly Young of The New York Times praised Waters' brand of "weirdo" hyberbole, and felt he made a rare achievement in that "every character thinks and speaks exactly like the author", and to success.

[3] Henry Bankhead of Library Journal deemed it "nothing short of stunningly outrageous—a nonstop smorgasbord of theft, deceit, and rancor fueled by an unrelenting, unabashedly sexualized comic genius.

"[7] In October 2022, Deadline announced that Village Roadshow Pictures optioned the novel for a film adaptation, with Waters set to write the screenplay and direct.