door Rink Bowagon was a boy from the deep country He lived out past where the blacktop road became a dirt road and the dirt road petered out into a little footpath The path wound through the ancient trees of a wild forest hopped Black Bear Creek headed all the way up Lonesome Mountain made a right hand turn and ran smack into the Bowagons
SHAKE PREVIEW Virginia Wolfe
The Bowagons were the only folks who lived on Lonesome Mountain The townspeople argued as to whether it was because they were such strange folk that they lived there or whether it was because they lived there that they were such strange folk However everyone agreed that the Bowagon clan was a hotbed of strange and exotic talents Rink's Uncle Dud liked to tame rattlesnakes and his brothers and cousins were all shape-shifters
