
No radio. No talk. Just the hiss of a truck heater and a thermos of cocoa too hot to drink. Kunkel’s prose moves the way the journey does—unhurried and quiet. She trusts silence to do its work, and it does. Goodale, working in monoprint, oil paint, watercolor, and gouache, charts the colors of early morning with extraordinary fidelity: deep blue-black giving way to bruised indigo, then sulfur gold, then a blazing citrine sun erupting over the hills. The darkness has a particular texture—velvety
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