Review: Lullaby Road: A Novel James Anderson Crown 2018 I’d read The Never-Open Desert Diner from this author, and when I found this book I knew I had to read it too. This author has a way of constructing his stories that really works for me. Easy reading narrative, simple narrative, belies its power. I have not read any other I like better in quite a while. He can weave so many colors and patterns without losing a thread or the reader along the way. Ben, a single, amiable, independent trucker with a bit of a past who lives in a Utah desert town, lets himself be talked into babysitting for a neighbor girl who is OK with him taking the baby with him while he makes his deliveries. She was desperate, and Ben couldn’t say no. Sounds a bit unusual, but they have the history that makes it work. Within a few minutes he also has gained two more passengers for the run, an abandoned child and a dog. ...
