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Black Coconuts, Brown Magic
by Joseph Theroux

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• Language: english
• Publisher: Dial Press
• Author: Joseph Theroux
• Genres: humor
• Release date: January 1, 1983
• ISBN: 9780385279475 (0385279477)
• Format: hardcover, 227 pages

About The Book

Silas Wicklowe, a 35-year-old doctor and Vietnam vet, arrives in Samoa (from Hawaii) for a three-month stint at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Tropical Medical Center. Silas is amused/appalled by his administrative boss there: Swanson Ape, a Mormon Samoan who doesn’t believe in bacteria («»Cherms? I don’t believe in that… I never see a cherm»») and who seems to have a violent streak. He …

More is charmed/ shocked by the Samoan patients, who display a surprising range of illnesses and who say «»Thank you for your love»» when leaving Wicklowe’s office. He is pursued by estranged wife Betty — a psychobabbler («»Be upfront and honest, give everyone space for their heads»») who shows up uninvited, fails to arouse impotent Silas, and takes up instead with a foul journalist. And he is intrigued by traditional Samoan sorcery/medicine — eventually attending an exorcism presided over by earthy witch-doctor Ellie (she calls Betty «»No-Tits»»), one of the several uninhibited, quirky Samoan-earth-mother types on display. But most of all Silas is haunted — by Vietnam-medic memories, by nightmares, by the violent «»dark side of himself»»… and by a long-ago family mystery: when Silas was two, his Navy father, stationed in Samoa, apparently murdered his mother by hurling coconuts at her — soon leaving Silas an orphan. Thus, Silas has returned to Samoa «»to discover his lost childhood,»» talking to the judge in his father’s murder case; and, after he’s killed a shark and attempted suicide, his inner demons are finally exorcised… with some erotic help from one of those Samoan women. First-novelist Theroux (brother of Paul and Alexander) doesn’t successfully blend the two primary strands here — the wry satire/comedy and the murky, even weepy soul-journey. And, with subplots at every turn (there’s also the murder of a favorite patient), the effect is often both messy and contrived. But some nice (if cheap) laughs are gotten from the Samoans’ fractured English — and the intriguing glimpses into Pago Pago life (Theroux is a resident there) help to make this an uneven yet stylish, modestly impressive debut.

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