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She finds a new life on a boat renting a cabin from. Beachcombing for a shipwrecked god is joe coomers best and most substantial novel to date. Even had there been no archaeology subtext, beachcombing for a shipwrecked god has been one of my favorite books since i first read it some three or. Beachcombing for a shipwrecked god by joe coomer, 1997, scribner paperback fiction edition, in english 1st scribner paperback fiction ed.

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Author joe coomer then sends his three unlikely heroines off on a voyage of discovery that is at times very funny, sometimes almost heartrending in its sadness, but always poignant and sensitive. I wanted this book to be longer, but enjoyed it greatly. Joe coomer is the much celebrated author of beachcombing for a shipwrecked god, a flatland fable, and the loop, which was a new york times book of the. Despite its sparkling humor and madcap moments, this introspective, lyrical work is quite a change of pace from the raucous absurdities of the loop, coomers. Joe coomer, beachcombing for a shipwrecked god rambles.