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Read this straight through in one sitting. Then went back and read several of the stories again. Fantastic collection of road stories where everything is coming undone. The language is dense, particular, and passionately detailed. The maximalist approach bears comparison to Lee K. Abbott and maybe the early work of Debra Monroe. The only piece I didn’t really enjoy was the two-column all dialog “BMW Conversation,” although it is an interesting experiment.
Along the highways and back roads of nowhere America, out west or south or somewhere in the vast middle zones, a series of relationships malinger: unwanted, ill-fated, falling apart, never begun. A lot of these stories involve infidelity. These are not relationships stably grounded in a home, they belong instead to the liminality of travel, often a suspended state of never-arrival, without clear destination. Along the way road signs and pylons of decrepit tourist traps beam out inscrutable messa...
