What a bizarre book yet I couldn't seem to not finish it. The main character is a strange man in his early 30's by the name of Kelly Palamino, a hopeless dishwasher living in Jackson Hole. He has several mental issues, one of which he thinks that water talks to him. In this story his current wife which he married during their free spirited hippy, panhandling, free love phase has walked out on him and denied ever marrying him. She has traded it all in to move in with a former friend that they once hung on the streets of New Orleans with during their drug hazed hippy life.
One afternoon Kelly is sitting on his front stoop when he sees a young woman, Collette, in her wedding dress, punt a football and he decides at that moment that she is miserable and meant to be his true love. This crazy man crashes their wedding and begins a long journey of stalking this girl and trying to convince her to leave her wealthy new husband to be with him. The lengths that this man goes through is just plain crazy and all the while the water is giving him advice. In the meantime, the obvious occurs and Collete's weathly father in law makes every attempt to ruin Kelly and run him out of town or lock him away. Why you might wonder? Because Collette has some sort of weird fascination with this loser and can't keep herself from sneaking off the meet him.
The story takes on several twists and turns and occasionally I couldn't decide whether to feel sorry for him or think that he was a whack job that needed to be institutionalized. I am still trying to decide if I actually liked the book or if it was just one of those freak shows that you can't seem to not watch.
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