This is a story of a surfer Joe Sharky whose best days are behind him. A surfer who didn't anything in his life apart from surfing. Surfing sounds exotic for the story but if you replace him with any other trade the story would have left you the same way.
The turning point of the story is definitely an accident and how it jolted his routine life to bring him to introspection.
There are some minor characters who are portrayed as eager to exchange lives with our surfer because he is presumed to have the best of lives. But that again comes back to the point that he might have been an singer, dancer, painter or what not and people would have said the things (in the novel too).
The downside was that in the 400 pages it was a bit repetitive a lot. But that can be the writer's style as well.
Maybe not the best one but I did get to know some words in Hawaiian which has a really deep meaning. And yes, Pakalolo :)
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