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Is a Remarkable Book about some incredible young man at a very difficult time. A couple things on tap some random thought, jeannie, i know you have a few . Im kind of obsessed with looking at bestseller lists which you hate. I take the bullet for the team but im also is interested in something that pops up unexpectedly. I talked a couple weeks ago about these books that were decades old popping up, to kill a mockingbird is a prime example. We know why and we know why handmaids tale was there but this week on the Washington Post bestseller paperback up pops blue highways. By william athis is a book that was written was published i think early 80s written in 1978 by william lee he moaned. I think he was an english professor he had lost his job and separated from his wife and he got in a 40 Econoline Van 1975 van and road what he called the blue highways. This was before gps. All the back roads were colored blue. Those were the roads he chose to take. He went to 38 of the 50 states and ju