My first review. Thank you, Bruce Anderson.

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Mendocino County Today: Friday, April 4, 2014

RECOMMENDED READING: Comedy of Terror by John Fremont. The author is a long-time resident of Fort Bragg, not that this is a ‘homer’ review because I really, really liked the book. It’s a satire, a literary form always hard to bring off, and it’s a satire rooted in our area of Northern California with a recognizable series of local characters of the type we all recognize. I was chuckling throughout at passages like this one:

“Maybe she’ll know,” Wally said, pointing to a sign beside a red-and-blue-striped tent where a Psychic to the Stars channeled dead celebrities every evening at six, except when the moon was in Libra. Inside the tent, a plump, ethereal woman of late middle age stood onstage, her left arm raised as if to shield her eyes from the sun, her right hand swept behind as if fanning a fart.

“Sssh,” a patron cautioned. “She’s channeling.”

A phone rang, and the psychic to the stars took an instrument from her gown, covered the mouthpiece, and told the handful of patrons in the audience that Jacqueline Onassis Kennedy was on the line. “Who has a question for Jackie?”

“What’s the square root of forty-five?” Joe shouted. He was ignored in favor of a silver-haired woman who inquired, “Tell me, Jackie, who was your true love? Was it Jack or Ari?”