“Michigan was all lake and sky and stars, and I though back to Marlena asking me that question about dying and still agreed with the answer I’d given. There would be beauty to drowning here, to living your whole life in this place, to never knowing the uglier world outside.”

“Michigan was all lake and sky and stars, and I though back to Marlena asking me that question about dying and still agreed with the answer I’d given. There would be beauty to drowning here, to living your whole life in this place, to never knowing the uglier world outside.”

— Julie Buntin