

Chapter 3
THE NUMBING
EVERYTHING THAT WAS
...as AB Andre looks out the taffrail, straining at the capstan; as he hears the trumpets and the hammering drum...grabbing a sextant, he watches for cetaceans...seeking the ambergris of life, with his 'body o death' appearance, he realizes:
like solitude--water is great, but too much...will drown you.
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He reminisces back from not too long ago. To relative civilization. Before his escape. Aware that disintegration is something that happens to everything.
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...He shares with others on the training ground what it is to be a volunteer...a volunteer is somebody who didn't understand the question.
Chapter 5
SAVE THE WORLD
EVERYTHING THAT WAS
...The neighborhood sweet Judy Jane landed in looked like the burnt up set for Westside Story after a storm, a bad one. Windows blown out. Doors boarded up. Trash all over. But the Missionaries of Charities row of brownstones were neat and a haven. A vegetable garden within walls was a surprise.
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After that Judy found herself in northern California living in a tree - to save it.
WHAT PEOPLE SAY


Parks emplys a deep, long knowledge of Seattle...with a dreamy, druggy, deepdiving narrative.

The chaos that can encompass one's existance shines throughout the pages...
REVIEWS
"A raucous, if at times difficult, literary concoction in a bizarre world of radicals."
KIRKUS REVIEWS / EMPTY BOTTLE OF SMOKE, CONON PARKS
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"Parks employs a deep, long knowledge of Seattle...with a dreamy, druggy, deepdiving narrative."
SEATTLE REVIEW OF BOOKS / EMPTY BOTTLE OF SMOKE, CONON PARKS
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"An unapologetically manic and original novel about a drifter who heads for the Aleutian Islands in the 1980s."
KIRKUS REVIEWS / SOME KIND OF ENDING, CONON PARKS
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"The chaos that can encompass one’s existence shines throughout the pages of Some Kind of Ending....The characters are all on a collision course, but where will they intersect? Will there be anyone left in the aftermath? "
SAN FRANCISCO BOOK REVIEW / EMPTY BOTTLE OF SMOKE, CONON PARKS