Coconut Oil Joe Linker 9781530995264 Books
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Penina and Salty return to Refugio, a fictional beach town on Santa Monica Bay, in "Coconut Oil," a sequel to "Penina's Letters." Forty years have passed since the close of “Penina’s Letters,” and Salty is again our first person narrator, and “Coconut Oil” continues an experimental narrative form – as Sal hands the mic off to several other characters and we are brought up to date on Refugio. The themes of “Coconut Oil” include aging, housing and homelessness, gentrification, and how we occupy ourselves over time. The style is experimental in a way a common reader might enjoy. The back cover photo for “Coconut Oil” was taken from the northbound Coast Starlight train as it passed by the point at Refugio Beach, California, a campground 26 miles north of Santa Barbara, in the late 70’s. The front cover photo, more recent, shows the author’s shadow over a tree hollow holding mushrooms that look like bird eggs.
Coconut Oil Joe Linker 9781530995264 Books
In part (only!): Salty's continuing odyssey. A story of homelessness in many forms & the soul's search for peace when the only question that remains is "what to think about when there is nothing left to think about". Can epiphanies open in an age of deconstruction?Product details
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Coconut Oil Joe Linker 9781530995264 Books Reviews
Coconut Oil is the sequel to Joe Linker’s recent novel Penina’s Letters . I wrote a review of Penina’s Letters and , so , Joe sent me a copy of the sequel . He had to send it over to Poland , but it caught up with me here in Szczecin . The UPS guy knocked on the door and rattled off a few rushed words that I didn’t understand ; but I could see the package in his grip and he deftly put two and two together and handed over the package from America to me.
I was excited to get the new novel . Now I might find out what has happened to that young soldier -returned- from -war Salvador Persequi , and how about his love interest to whom he wrote the letters , the enigmatic Penina ? Did Sal , known to his friends as Salty , get himself together enough to get by and have a good life over the years ? Did he stay in the beach town of Refugio ? Did he stay surfing , and was he successful in staying with the girl ? How might the letter-writing passion have worked itself out ?
Coconut Oil . So , what the heck is coconut oil ? There are door-to-door salesmen who sell the stuff, it seems , at least in Refugio there are . The novel begins with a domestic dialog between Penina and Sal about the stuff . So , we know they have stayed together . You , as reader , have to hold on , right from the start as the novel , perhaps more of a long poem , takes off into the hinterland , with the first chapter Wintertide .
In Two Crabs , the next chapter , we re-visit the casual interactions of our curious couple as they wander the beach , rent a boat , barbeque burgers , and consider grabbing a beer at Crab’s bar . Sal mentions the letter writing gig again , in passing . I found myself wondering , reading Two Crabs , if the relationship had somehow bogged down into serial crabbing with one another . Is that the hint the author intends ?
Next we learn that Puck Malone , the surf shop owner friend from Penina’s Letters , is now the mayor of Refugio . Evidently , there is a homeless problem in the town , and Puck sets up a committee to study the issue . Penina volunteers for the committee . Sal’s reaction
This committee of Puck’s you volunteered us for . Seriously ? Jumping into that kind of noise does not sound peaceful to me .
Peace is boring , she tells him , and people need our help . She and Sal are opposites , perhaps . He says
I accused Penina of being a mixed metaphor , while she accused me of being a rhetorical wreck.”
But , what have we learned , really , about this couple ? As the novel progresses , I wondered . How did the two of them get by over the years ? We do find out what they’ve done to make a living . Now , in Coconut Oil , they are retiring and moving back to Refugio . But , we discover that Refugio itself is suddenly deconstructed . Puck and Sal wander the inexplicably vacant area that was once the old Refugio . They discuss plans for the land , as if the whole place is owned by Puck , who we know has become inexplicably super-rich . Sal and Penina now live , at least temporarily , with Puck in Puck’s newly built super -mansion . And Puck , by the way , has re-discovered a long-shipwrecked load of coconuts , with which he plans a business selling coconut oil .Poland 8 2016 coconut oil and kids 028
Before we get there , though , we hear from the homeless Sister Bernice , her nun’s tale , and also the Waif’s tale , and I began to wonder if I had stumbled somehow into Chaucer , having previously rambled through passages reminiscent of that Irish writer , James Joyce , or perhaps Flann O’ Brien , spiced with a sprinkle of e.e. cummings , and other embedded literati who have easily managed to escape my recognition .
So , I suppose the way I understand it is this Sal and Penny wind up homeless , in a way , living with the rich friend , Puck , in a big but definitely un-homelike house of his , while they are engaged in trying to help a group of homeless squatters in a town which is about to be torn apart , a place where , evidently , everyone’s lives are to be disrupted ; but (never fear ! ) there are plans in the works to rebuild . Sometime . Meanwhile , there will be coconut oil available , an ocean of lotion , sold door to door .
The novel begins with a quote from Shakespeare’s As You Like It . Perhaps Joe Linker has thrown us unawares into some mysterious and unique place like the Shakespearean woods of Arden , where we best , as we read , keep our wits about us , watch for and accept what comes along , and enjoy the journey .
In part (only!) Salty's continuing odyssey. A story of homelessness in many forms & the soul's search for peace when the only question that remains is "what to think about when there is nothing left to think about". Can epiphanies open in an age of deconstruction?
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