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“For the dead are always close by in a life like Mahoney’s. The dead are drawn to the confused and the unwritten, the damaged and the fractured, to those with big cracks and gaps in their tales, which the dead just yearn to fill.”

Kidd introduces the dead not just to introduce them but as characterization for Mahoney. That’s so deft.

Again. And slower.

“People are born to live and stay and die here. They don’t want to go. Why would they when all the roads that lead to Mulderrig are downhill so that leaving is uphill all the way?”

I come from a town like that.