It took me a while to get into Kokomo: the opening pages are an abstruse ode to a penis, many characters are introduced at once (a pet hate of mine) and then we go back in time. I’m having a real “am I reading the same book as everyone else?” moment. Something fe It would appear I’m the only person who doesn’t love Kokomo. I struggled with the nonlinear narrative - it’s often really unclear whether something is a memory or a memory within a memory, or current day.
It would appear I’m the only person who doesn’t love Kokomo. Their reunion leaves Mina raking through pieces of their painful past in a bid to uncover the truth.īoth tender and fierce, heartbreaking and funny, Kokomo is a story about how secrets and love have the power to bring us together and tear us apart.more Mina drops everything to fly home, only to discover that Elaine will not talk about her sudden return to the world, nor why she's spent so much time hiding from it. Her agoraphobic mother, Elaine, has left the house for the first time in twelve years. When Mina receives an urgent call from her best friend back in Melbourne, her world is turned upside down. Mina drops everything to fly home, only to discover that Elaine will not talk about her sudden return to the world, nor why she' 'genuinely funny and heartbreaking' - VPLA judges
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