The Never-Open Desert Diner: A Novel

The Never-Open Desert Diner: A NovelA singularly compelling debut novel, about a desert where people go to escape their past, and a truck driver who finds himself at risk when he falls in love with a mysterious woman. Ben Jones lives a quiet, hardscrabble life, working as a trucker on Route 117, a little travelled road in a remote region of the Utah desert which serves as a haven for fugitives and others looking to hide from the world. For many of the desert's inhabitants, Ben's visits

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They've come home to suburban Cincinnati to get their mother to stop feeding their father steak as he recovers from heart surgery

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As it reopens one of art history's most famous cold cases

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The improvisatory jazziness of George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue has its counterpart in the great jazz baby of the New York skyline

Orphaned as a child after her parents' murder

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