![]() ![]() ![]() They finally arrive at a group of cabins and one large building, the Washburn Library. But I was really only thinking one thing: this bastard moved a tree. I tried to come up with an explanation, anything to feel less awestruck. Lake ties the chain to himself and makes an opening for the truck. ![]() Ricky expects Lake will tie the other end to the truck, but he doesn’t. Lake gets out with a chain and ties it to the tree. A tree falls across the road in front of the pickup. As Lake drives deeper into the backwoods of Vemont, Ricky starts imagining that Lake will kill him. Lake, a very large and tall man (“His mother must’ve been a polar bear”), is waiting at the bus station in Vermont to chauffeur Ricky the remainder of his journey to an unknown destination for an unknown reason to meet unidentified people. Ricky leaves his job and takes the bus to snowy Vermont. You made a promise in Cedar Rapids in 2002. Ricky Rice is a janitor at Union Station in a Utica, New York when his boss hands him an envelope that contains a bus ticket to Vermont and a note. Victor LaValle provides one of the most seductive openings among the 2010 Tournament of Books contenders. ![]()
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