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Baja Oklahoma

Dan Jenkins

Hardcover | Pages: 299 pages

Rating: 3.92 | 304 Users | 25 Reviews

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Title	:	Baja Oklahoma
Author	:	Dan Jenkins
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 299 pages
Published	:	January 1st 1981 by Atheneum Books
Categories	:	Fiction. Humor. Sports. Modern. Music

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Dan Jenkins' second best-known novel, Baja Oklahoma, features protagonist Juanita Hutchins, who can cuss and politically commentate with the best of Jenkins' male protagonists. Still convincingly female, though in no way dumb and girly, fortyish Juanita serves drinks to the colorful crew patronizing Herb's Cafe in South Fort Worth, worries herself sick over a hot-to-trot daughter proving too fond of drugs and the dealers who sell them, endures a hypochondriac mother whose whinings would justify murder, dates a fellow middle-ager whose connections with the oil industry are limited to dipstick duty at his filling station—and, by the way, she also hopes to become a singer-songwriter in the real country tradition of Bob Wills and Willie Nelson. That Juanita is way too old to remain a kid with a crazy dream doesn't matter much to her. In between handing out longneck beers to customer-acquaintances battling hot flashes and deciding when boyfriend Slick is finally going to get lucky, Juanita keeps jotting down lyrics reflective of hard-won wisdom and setting them to music composed on her beloved Martin guitar. Too many of her early songwriting results are one-dimensional or derivative, but finally she hits on something both original and heartfelt: a tribute to her beloved home state, warts and all.

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Original Title:	Baja Oklahoma
ISBN:	0689111738 (ISBN13: 9780689111730)
Edition Language:	English

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Hilarious. Not much of a plot, but the one-liners made it worthwhile. Also, be warned: It took several pass-throughs to understand the author's underlying sarcasm when referencing matters of race (lots of uncomfortable references to the "N" word) and domestic relations, like this gem: "Whapping the shit out of a woman on the morning after the wedding night let the woman know how it was going to be."If you can understand the author's intent raw character dialogue, and you don't mind plowing



(Fiction 1981) Saw the TV version several years ago, guess I bought the book too. I liked the movie better, I think. Juanita Hutchins works at a cafe, has a grown daughter who makes interesting life choices, and Juanita wants to be a country song writer. Her life is filled with work, friends, relationships, and music. It was an interesting slice of life from that era compared to today's life. Worth reading once.

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Country music doesn't do much for me, but the cheerful bleakness of this style of humor does. Or bleak cheerfulness. One of the two. Yes, there's humor here that won't fly with modern sensibilities. The racism of the characters (not the work itself) is going to be too much for some readers, who expect all character flaws to be punished or at least explicitly condemned by the narrative. Folksy and funny.

It is absolutely worth reading this book just for the chapter where Tommy Earl comes into the cafe drunk and places an order.I laughed for three solid days.

I read this years ago, but recall it as hilarious and full of the sort of spirited Texas humour that I gravitate toward - the HBO movie version with Lesley Ann Warren, Swoozie Kurtz, and a young Julia Roberts is equally whomp, and has an appearance by Willie Nelson as Willie Nelson.