"Jules?" "Yep?" I turned and looked down at him. In fact, it is a constant irritating stream of information, until finally, Walt can stand it no longer. The gravedigger has a lot of miscellany about the disposal of earthly remains that he happily shares with Sheriff Walt Longmire of Absaroka County as he digs and Walt stands by watching and freezing. He's referring to the practice of building a huge bonfire on top of the spot where a grave was to be dug in hopes of thawing out the ground enough to dig. That first sentence is spoken by a gravedigger, attempting to dig a hole in the middle of a Wyoming winter. What a segue! Perhaps I had been fated to read this book next. Then I opened this book and read the first sentence: "They used fire, back in the day." I had to chuckle. The last book I read was Celeste Ng's Little Fires Everywhere.
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