And unless the police in some other small American town happen to arrest a vagrant who turns out to be Wade White-house — or maybe he won’t be a vagrant; maybe he will have turned himself into one of those faceless fellows we see working behind the counter at our local video rental store, or the gray-faced man who shoves circles of frozen dough into an oven at the Mr. Pizza at the mall and lives in a town-house apartment at the edge of town until his mailman recognizes him from the picture at the post office — unless that happens, and Wade Whitehouse finally receives justice, there will be no more mention in the newspapers of him and his friend Jack Hewitt and our father. No more mention of them anywhere. The story will be over. Except that I continue.
About the Author
RUSSEL BANKS is the author of thirteen works of fiction, inlcuding Cloudsplitter, Rule of the Bone, The Sweet Hereafter, and continental Drift. He lives in upstate New York.
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