![]() ![]() ![]() Even still, Pan’s advice to keep moving east is powerful advice. That would be pretty impressive if Pan wasn’t slowly losing his powers thanks to the rise of Christianity. He eventually encounters Pan, the stinky goat god from Greece. Really, it starts in the eighth century, where a deposed king travels through Eurasia, hoping to find the secret of long life. They all come to be connected, somehow, to a mysterious bottle of perfume that might just be linked to immortality. Still, New Orleans is such a big presence in the book that it’s more than enough to include Jitterbug Perfume on this list.Įssentially, the novel concerns dueling perfumers located in Paris, Seattle and, of course, New Orleans. Really, the city takes up one of four major storylines in the book. To be fair, Jitterbug Perfume, Tom Robbins’ 1984 novel, is not solely focused on New Orleans. Jitterbug Perfume (Cover image via Bantam) 10. ![]()
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