“Every thirty seconds or so, call out for the boy. This, it turned out, was the most difficult part for Carl. For all the men. They were unaccustomed to raising their voices in this way, to calling out one person’s name repeatedly. As it turned out, the women were more willing to do so; and so it was their voices that echoed throughout the woods. All of them were mothers. All of them regularly set aside their innate sense of propriety to holler with abandon for their children.”
