![]() The book starts in the mid-1940s when Arvin is a young boy and travels throughout the years until Arvin is about 17. A great deal of the story revolves around these two. Carl takes the photos and Sandy acts as bait. The next characters we meet are Sandy and Carl, who take a few weeks every summer to travel the country luring hitchhikers into their car, taking them into a secluded area to take “sexy photos” and then killing them. He makes Arvin pray for hours into the night as loudly as possible with his knees in the bloody mud with a dead dog dangling from a tree in front of his face. Arvin is a young boy when his mother takes ill and in response, his father starts to sacrifice animals at a “prayer lob” in the woods by their house in an effort to convince God to cure his wife. It is a story that centers around a few characters that all have very dark secrets. I started reading The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray Pollock a while back. ![]()
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