For a setting that is often bright and wide open, writer James Anderson manages to find some dark places. Anderson’s first novel, The Never-Open Desert Diner , tells an intriguing but dark tale featuring a Utah truck driver named Ben Jones.
Anderson’s follow-up novel, Lullaby Road, features Jones and some of the other mysterious and lonely characters from his first book.
"You know that game where you say a common word, but if you say it a hundred times it sounds strange? I think the same thing is true of people, and Ben even says that in this book - no matter how well you know someone there's always a stranger inside them you don't," says Anderson.
The Oregon-based author joins Lake Effect's Mitch Teich to talk about his latest novel and the continuation of Ben Jones' journey:
