Our Island

<p>About Junkins' novel Orchards of Almonds:</p> <p>Don Junkins' semi-autobiographical novel Orchards of Almonds blossoms with a Camelot-studded cast of characters that includes Kennedys alive and dead LBJ and company Reagan and dozens of California politicos academics Viet Nam protesters and movie stars. . . . Junkins-as much the poet in design as in language-has achieved another triumph of deftness irony and grace. </p><p>Allen Josephs (<em>On Hemingway and Spain</em>) </p><p>I was bowled over by Puss. I have never read in any other literary work such a profoundly pure and honest and dead-on rendering of the young girl. And that coupled with her extraordinary father/daughter relationship it moved me deeply. He did for that relationship what Hemingway did for father and son in 'Indian Camp.'</p> <p>Linda Miller (<em>Letters from the Lost Generation: Gerald and Sara Murphy and Friends</em>)</p>