Magnets for disaster, yes, but also certain people are meant for the lives they’re born into. The “simplest” character in the novel, Cash, recognizes this truth about his brother Darl. This world is not his world. I also teach True Grit and one of two novels by David Joy, either The Line That Held Us, or The Weight of This World. I might teach Where the Crawdads Sing one semester, and then I am teaching In Cold Blood next semester in the class. My Sunshine Away is the other. Thanks Jane, and damn about those claps!