Charles Portis understood and conveyed the grain of America in ways that may prove valuable in future to historians trying to understand what was decent about us as a nation. Donna Tartt New York Times Book Review Ray Midge is waiting for his credit card bill to arrive. His wife Norma has run off with her exhusband taking Rays cards shotgun and car. But from the receipts Ray can track where theyve gone. He takes off after them as does an irritatingly tenacious bail bondsman both following the romantic couples spending as far as Mexico. There Ray meets Dr Reo Symes the seemingly downonhisluck and rather eccentric owner of a beaten up and broken down bus who needs a ride to Belize. The further they drive in a car held together by coathangers and excesses of oil the wilder their journey gets. But theyre not going to give up easily. show more