His wife Jeanette, Brandon's mother and champion, is losing her memory and spends her days poring over old photos and memory flash cards. His knees are giving out on him and he wishes he'd sold out to the big milk conglomerates when they offered to buy his farm. Norm, Brandon father, is a struggling small dairy farmer whose cows have been struck by a mystery illness. At his father's insistence, he's recently joined the US Border Patrol and has an uncanny knack of being at the right spot when drug smugglers attempt to cross the US/Canada border near where he is stationed. He wants most of all to be inconspicuous. The hero of our story is Brandon: he's 6ft 8in tall and solidly built, severely dyslexic, can mimic bird calls and likes to builds banners of made of leaves and towers of stones. There is a whole slew of slightly oddball characters in this novel. But I was captivated by the opening sentence and the story that followed. This is my first Jim Lynch novel so his style was totally unknown to me.
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