East of Eden in West Texas

I was holding the steering wheel with my normal 10 and 2, staring at the wide open road in front of me & answered, out loud without hesitation, the experience I had reading East of Eden was betrayal.

A couple of years ago I was on a road trip with my daughter heading back from NM. We had decided to listen to George Saunders audible book, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain. My child fell asleep to the gentle cadence of his voice so I found myself alone with him and his inquiry while I drove through the desert of West Texas. 

And an inquiry it was. A Swim in…