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A different world then, a different world now...California in the 1960s, and the winds of change are raging. Orange groves uprooted for tract houses, people flooding into Orange County, and strange new ideas in the air about war, music, sex, and drugs, and new influences including Richard Nixon and Timothy Leary.

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Preposterous

When T. (homas?) Jefferson was learning how to construct a mystery novel, he certainly paid close attention the day they discussed tying up loose ends. Putting to bed a story this complicated is no mean feat but he accomplishes it, painfully I must add.. I suppose there's a murder mystery in there somewhere, but frankly this effort is so complex and because each and every nuance is taken right down to the molecular level, the thing does not track well.
Add to that some implausible, even bizarre, occurrences (like raising the dead), and I had a hell of a time trying to decide just where the hell all this was going.
I suspect Mr. Jefferson may have taken preparation, particularly his investigation of the psychedelic drug scene, a tad too far. In fact, the story line meanders so far off on bilious tangents throughout this that I suspect these side trips must have been fueled by THC or LSD.
So mix in Tele-evangelists, the John Birch Society, organic citrus-based cleaning emulsions, homosexuality, pedophilia, drive-in cathedrals, the Vietnam war and cameos by Dick Nixon and Chuck Manson! (just to name a few) and you will soon discover that California Girl is definitely a long strange trip indeed. He did forget a tribute to the Great White Shark, however.
I didn't care who dunnit, I simply wanted it to end!
I am stunned that it actually won an Edgar. Preposterous!!!

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  • Alnita
  • Fallbrook, CA USA
  • 05-02-16

Predictable

You'll probably guess the outcome fairly early on. If you do, you'll probably be right.