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Bookworm, no. 108

Tim Ryan reviews Dennis E. Bolen’s “Amaranthine Chevrolet.” Margaret Boyce on “Challenging Borders.” Poetry by Sneha Madhavan-Reese. Inside the September issue.

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Aug 12, 2025
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The Truck Driver

Amaranthine Chevrolet
Dennis E. Bolen
Rare Machines
256 pages, softcover and ebook

It’s 1967. Robin Wallenco, just fifteen, drives from a farm in Saskatchewan to his mother’s home on Vancouver Island in a 1942 half-ton previously owned by his uncle, who has died of cancer. The naive, capable, and good-natured boy has an unusually strong conn…

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