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Third time reading, and I didn’t think I could love it more, but I do!!

“…There was one infamous bridge in Durham, North Carolina, that only had a clearance of eleven feet, eight inches, and locals called it the “can opener” on account of how it would peel the tops off tall trucks that ignored all the low clearance signs….”

Is this more common than I thought? We have our own “can opener” bridge where I live

They fell into silence until they reached another town and stopped at an establishment with the most alarming name for a business Abbott had ever heard: the Bald Knob Truck Stop.

🤣😂🤣

“That’s the other thing about living in the black box—you get trained to turn every little thing in your life into a grand fucking psychodrama.”

“…what she was doing to me, what we were all doing to each other, it was just so, I don’t know. Phony. We all just wanted to feel something real but to feel it without consequence.”

“History is full of guys like this, and we now live in a nation of them, tens of millions of aggrieved narcissists, people willing to raze civilization because they feel personally humiliated. That’s the tinderbox, the chain reaction waiting to happen.”

Sooooo accurate!!!

I’ve been laughing out loud for hours! So good!!

I have no idea how this book ended up borrowed on my Libby, but I’m obsessed!! So different! The magic and political system is very intriguing! The family dynamics are giving Peaky Blinder/Succession vibes.