A turtle wife is a woman (or a man—sometimes referred to as a "turtle husband") married to someone obsessed with nature's shelled wonders. When Anita Salzberg marries her husband, Allen, she discovers that she has also married his not-so-little turtle hobby. Over the course of the book and numerous improbable escapades—sheltering a ginormous snapping turtle in the bathtub, ogling tortoises having sex on the living room floor, and searching for turtles in pet stores across America—Turtle Wife becomes turtle lover. Even those who have never kept a pet turtle will enjoy this laugh-out-loud story of a turtle-challenged marriage.