On her afternoon walk, Amanda Tournier noticed a big cardboard box sitting in the middle of her neighborhood park. She stopped and crossed her arms. “It’s probably empty,” she thought. She sat down on a nearby bench and let her imagination fill the box full of latent desires. A leather briefcase full of $100 bills. […]
Dylan had been in the water for about 45 minutes when he finally saw a decent set of waves heading down the coast. He paddled out a little farther and let the first two waves roll through. The overeager surfers would clear out early, giving him room for a good ride on the later waves.
Introduction Vietnam. To many Americans it is a tag on an article of clothing. But to anyone who was sixteen or older in the Sixties, it is a name seared into their psyche. For ten years, the top story on the news almost every night was Vietnam. It dominated our politics and our culture. It
Click for: Summaries and Links to Previous Chapters 20 Six weeks later, when Jorge was going to meet me at Buck’s for lunch, but he called at the last minute and said he was running late. Instead, he asked me to meet him in an Indian restaurant a block from the Enersystems office in Mountain View. He
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Summary of Previous Chapters 17 I didn’t like to think about why I’d waited decades to return to Barrington. My mother abused prescription drugs and alcohol and Dad had a hard time keeping a job—could high school have been anything I was eager to revisit? Leaving from the airport in San Francisco, I scribbled down
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Summary of Previous Chapters 13 In January the rains came. Storms rolled in from the Pacific, one after another, releasing torrents, until late in the month. The first morning the sun came out, I called Diana and asked her to meet me at the ranch over my lunch hour. I arrived at the barn early
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