About the Book: Walk Me to the Distance
'Everett has mastered the movement between unspeakable terror and knockout
comedy The New York Times
David Larson can never go home. His parents are dead. His sister and her hippie
husband, staunchly anti-war, wont even have the newly returned Vietnam veteran
in the house. So Larson takes his chances on the road, travelling west from
Georgia until he breaks down in the nowhere town of Sluts Hole, Wyoming. There
he finds lodging with Sixbury, a one-legged sexagenarian widow, and her disabled
son. Their ersatz family is complete when Larson takes in Butch, a Vietnamese
girl abandoned at the