A lone train crossing the New Mexico desert at dawn

THE LONG WAY EAST

A novel by Jared Nanke

Gallup, New MexicoBoston, Massachusetts
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35.5281° N · 108.7419° W

Gallup, New Mexico

West → East

Two days east.

Strangers enter our lives without knowing what they have interrupted.

Flat midwestern landscape seen from a moving train in winter

The middle of the country

WestEast

At night, the window becomes a mirror.

The East

The landscape grows colder. Bare trees. Gray skies. The architecture thickens. The journey approaches its end without arriving.

42.3601° N · 71.0589° W

Boston, Massachusetts

Arrival is not the same as coming home.