Wyoming

A woman and her young son travel by car through the southern and midwestern United States in this heartbreakingly spare novel-in-dialogue. As the mother drives, she and the boy, Roy, trade impressions of the landscape and of life, in the process approaching an understanding of each other and their shared inner landscape."e;Mom, can we drive to Wyoming?"e; "e;You mean now?"e; "e;Uh-huh. Is it far?"e; "e;Very far. We're almost to Georgia."e; "e;Can we go someday?"e; "e;Sure, Roy, we'll go."e; "e;We won't tell anyone, right, Mom?"e; "e;No, baby, nobody will know where we are."e; "e;And we'll have a dog."e; "e;I don't see why not."e; "e;From now on when anything bad happens, I'm going to think about Wyoming. Running with my dog."e; "e;It's a good thing, baby. Everybody needs Wyoming."e; —from Wyoming