“Treasured Island isn’t the standard narrative.”

St. Barth isn’t just a party island for bold-faced exhibitionists, says a reviewer. “What emerges in Treasured Island isn’t the standard narrative of speculators bulldozing a sylvan idyll,” says Bloomberg Pursuits. Though “his book details how a first generation of wealthy vacationers initiated, then profited spectacularly from, the island’s descent into crass ostentation…Gross personally agonizes…