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Across the road from where she’s parked, aspens tumble down the basin toward Fish Lake, where five years earlier a Chinese refugee engineer took his three daughters camping on the way to visiting Yellowstone. The oldest girl, named for a Puccini opera heroine, will soon be wanted by the feds for fifty million dollars of arson. Two thousand miles to
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The year 1961 is also the year in which the great Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez took a Greyhound trip through the South and found the region to be akin to his own: I saw a world very similar to my home town of Aracataca in Colombia. As a company town built by United Fruit, Aracataca has the same wooden shacks with roofs made of zinc and
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The Passenger



O’Connor’s “Good Country People,”