Boggs is also, might I add, married to Ellis' dead half-brother's former girlfriend… and Ellis' half-brother died in a mysterious car accident many years before. A novel about the … It's just funny and weird and establishes a certain set of rules for the universe of the book. After all … We quickly get a sense of the scope of the odd background here – the coincidences like Ellis running into Heather after so many years and all of that. It starts to … Cars are terrifying things, man. …

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