I’m currently reading Jim Dodge’s Stone Junction, from the halcyon days of 1990. I have to be honest with you: at a hundred pages in, I’m not even 100% certain what this book is about, but it’s so gorgeously written and off-the-rails bonkers that I’m just along for the ride!

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