Dan Jenkins' second best-known novel, "Baja Oklahoma," features
protagonist Juanita Hutchins, who can cuss and politically
commentate with the best of Jenkins' male protagonists. Still
convincingly female, though in no way dumb and girly, fortyish
Juanita serves drinks to the colorful crew patronizing Herb's Cafe
in South Fort Worth, worries herself sick over a hot-to-trot
daughter proving too fond of drugs and the dealers who sell them,
endures a hypochondriac mother whose whinings would justify murder,
dates a fellow middle-ager whose connections with the oil industry
are limited to dipstick duty at his filling station--and, by the
way, she also hopes to become a singer-songwriter in the real
country tradition of Bob Wills and Willie Nelson. That Juanita is
way too old to remain a kid with a crazy dream doesn't matter much
to her. In between handing out longneck beers to
customer-acquaintances battling hot flashes and deciding when
boyfriend Slick is finally going to get lucky, Juanita keeps
jotting down lyrics reflective of hard-won wisdom and setting them
to music composed on her beloved Martin guitar. Too many of her
early songwriting results are one-dimensional or derivative, but
finally she hits on something both original and heartfelt: a
tribute to her beloved home state, warts and all.
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