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Penina's Letters
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ISBN10: 1530686881
ISBN13: 9781530686889
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: Mar 25 2016
Pages: 292
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.66 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781530686889
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: Mar 25 2016
Pages: 292
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.66 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Salty hopes for a quiet return to his old life. Instead, he is thrust into a chaotic homecoming party at Puck Malone's surfboard shop, where the intense, romantic, and often surreal letters he wrote to Penina from the war zone are passed around and read aloud, introducing the rift between his romanticized longings and the discord of the present. What he does next surprises everyone:
All the fuss and hullabaloo, and a war just peters off. But none of that matters here. This isn't going to be about the war. I don't have any gory stories, nothing painting war as hell. Hell is an ocean with no waves. This is going to be about surfing and how I paddled out to live on the water after throwing Penina's letters off the end of the Refugio jetty.
Set in the surf-soaked culture of late 1960s Santa Monica Bay, Penina's Letters follows Salvador Persequi's homecoming weeks as he trades the grease and grit of the motor pool for the familiar scents of sea salt and surfboard resin in Refugio, navigating a landscape of changed lives, fractured loyalties, and the sound effects of a mind still adjusting to the silence of peace and the noise of the ocean.
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