All this was felt as she watched the preoccupied adults around her preparing for a new life, trying to end the yearning for an old one that she didn't know she saw how their eyes searched the distance for the shadows of mountains or the wide, open sky for the monsoons, one last time before it was gone forever.

NPR: Excerpt: 'The Latehomecomer'

Next door, Big Sky offers huge, open boulevards, six and eight car lanes wide, as if the locals race tractor trailers down here in the off-season.

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