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Coconut Oil
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781530995264
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: May 24 2016
Pages: 204
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.47 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Penina and Salty return to Refugio, a fictional beach town on Santa Monica Bay, forty years after the close of Penina's Letters. Married for decades, they come back to a community altered by time, pressure, and quiet need, where questions of belonging and responsibility surface in daily life. As a nearby homeless encampment and a young girl named Waif enter Penina's orbit, the boundaries between private marriage and public obligation blur. Lyrical but grounded, reflective, quietly and wryly comic, this character-driven novel explores marriage, community, and displacement.
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