“Tule Town,” which is part autobiography and partly sociology, doesn’t take place in the present. Rather, it is mostly set in the late 1970s and early ’80s
He points out that others like them can be found “across rural America where people “live close to the land and to each other.” Think of them as the kind of folks who voted for Donald Trump, might vote for him again, and who resonate with the phrase “Make America Great Again.”
In the promotional material for “Tule Town,” which is subtitled “a Memoir of Hellraising and Redemption,” Winckler describes himself as a “broken-hearted liberal who fell from the world stage and transformed his life in a conservative farm town.” By his own admission, he raised hell when he lived and worked in Porterville and uncovered stories about the dark side of town that citizens wanted to hide.
Winckler’s fog is a major character that helps build the suspense that drives the fast-paced narratives. Like Hammett and Chandler, Winckler is more concerned with feelings than with facts. In the author’s note at the front of the book, he writes that it was “not intended to be a book of historical rigidity,” and that he changed names and events “for the sake of storytelling.”
In fact, his memoir tells two entwined stories. One is about Porterville and its citizens, and the other is about Terry Winckler, who explains that he once wanted to be a priest and never entirely lost his faith and his belief in salvation.
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