In this first book of the unusual fantasy "Collinwoode" series, Collin O'Daurc, a teen-to twenty-something-ish hairstylist with too many girlfriends, suffers a stroke on the job and is promptly swept off to an island-hopping dream-existence that he can never quite figure out. He lands in the lap of long-dead Impressionist painter Paul Gauguin and his never-born daughter, Juane, and is whisked off to jungle adventures with the likes of Loren, a Maori cliff diver/inventor, Balthazar, a hair-covered librarian, Eugene, a Klondike-era tracker/physician, and Tully, a baboon-like monkey the size of...