Rocket City
When the novel begins, protagonist Marliee Levitay is driving to Alamogordo, New Mexico in a '72 Dodge Dart. The purpose of this trip is to surprise her boyfriend, Larry, who has moved there several months before. When she arrives, she fully intends to marry him. That is, she did intend on marrying him, until she picks up a hitchhiker by the name of Enoch Swann. Enoch is a habitual hitchhiker that travels aimlessly around the southwest; he is also a...