In Jitterbug Perfume, Robbins investigates themes of immortality, humor, individuality and, of course, love through an outrageous cast of characters and circumstances. Even the god Pan clambers through this novel, a symbol of humanity’s turn away from the physical/natural and toward the intellectual/rational.
To make the story even more zany, beets-yes, the root vegetable-show up randomly throughout the narrative. Dannyboy Wiggs, somehow manages to unite them all with his Last Laugh Foundation.
Tom Robbin’s Jitterbug Perfume (1984) tells the wild, at times bizarre, story of a number of characters scattered across geography and ages: a Dark Ages king-peasant-philosopher, Alobar his beloved, Hindu Kudra a misfit waitress in Seattle, Priscilla a pair of French cousins whose family has worked in the industrial perfume business for centuries and two women who comprise a small, even seedy, New Orleans perfume shop in the French Quarter.
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