A woman and her young son travel by car through the southern and midwestern United States in this heartbreakingly spare novel-in-dialogue. As the mother drives, she and the boy, Roy, trade impressions of the landscape and of life, in the process approaching an understanding of each other and thei...
It's hard to describe why I loved this so much. I guess I just did. It's 7 stories and whilst they're not all worthy of five stars, the book as a whole is.I have seen the film based off the first book, Wild at Heart and so for a while, it was hard to see Sailor as anything but Nic Cage, that wear...
“That’s what happens in the winter, Roy. The days are a lot shorter and colder because our side of the planet is farther away from the sun.” “The trees look beautiful without leaves, don’t they, Mom?” “I like when it’s sunny and cold. It makes my sk...
Her bold question regarding her attractiveness had made the intended effect on him and now Pace had to decide if he should make a serious move on her or let it pass. At his age, this took no small effort. He was twenty-four years older than Misty—what could she want, or expect, from him? Was she ...
Her father, Colonel St. Jude Napoleon, a career army man, and her mother, Fanny Rose Bravo, had designed and had the twenty-six-room Paradise house built for them, and they had both lived and died there. Nell was their only child. By the age of twelve, Nell had decided to devote her life to the w...
