Lao drives an old school bus from the eastern seaboard toward the west, vowing to pick up every hitchhiker he sees. Various travelers join him throughout the mid-continent as they make their wending way. This becomes an adventure from old lives lived in old places, merging into the mystical Basin and Range landscape. People and love are found and lost through brooding philosophical journeys of wonder, doubt, and hope that teeters between abandonment and affirmation . . . as they all move toward some ultimate fulfillment of mythological destiny. This is Will Sarvis's fourth novel. Other works include Amy's Bull Company, Another Dimension of Loneliness, Waiti, and Beaten Boy.