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Bolohead Row

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The brutual underside, dreams cum delusions of the postmodern tourist-state of Honolulu, Hawai'i is exactly what needs to be seen and heard now-- one where marriages break up like Peter Townsend's drums, where families fall in and out of poverty, where life is closer to beat beatitude of skid row than to the Royal Hawaiian fantasy of la vie en pink robes-- and Chris McKinney is there with a poetic and ethnographic accuracy and empathy that is spooky. "Bolohead Row" enters into his trilogy of works, with "The Tattoo" and "The Queen of Tears," making Honolulu as global-local city and the emergent literature of Hawai'i fully strange, uncanny in familiarity, mongrel, and new-- all at once. Applause is sent homeward from this side the Pacific...from Berkeley (Carlo Arreglo) and Santa Cruz (Rob Wilson), and keep writing it all down and out.

People that haven't read "The Tattoo" won't be disappointed. It is a good/quick read & has loads of insight and humor. One of the main character's, Winnie, is kinda a letdown at the end. Kinda reads like the author was rushing to meet a deadline, so he bailed out at the end & finished with a climatic ending right off a T.V. show. It is still very worth reading though - especially if you didn't grow up here.

Book is in good shape and arrived quickly.

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