The Missing Person (2007)
“He left each day in the purple van, whistling as he went, his coveralls shining whitely, like movie-star teeth. He came home grinning with exhaustion and scrubbed himself clean with the rough towels of whatever motel we were occupying. In the evenings he washed his coveralls with bleach at a laundromat and folded them carefully. He seemed to get paid well and in cash, with which he paid our room bills. I had no urge to go back to Wylie’s, and Angus, apparently, didn’t mind. He kept whatever he ...needed in the van, and if he went back to the apartment he didn’t tell me about it. When we craved a change of scene we moved to some new dive, off the highway where the truckers stayed, or downtown, where our shiftless neighbors lounged all day on their balconies, drinking Tecate and watching the cars go by.“When the water stops,” Angus told me at night as we lay in the sheets holding hands, “everything stops. And when the toilet doesn’t work, people can’t even stay inside their homes.MoreLess
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