The Up-Down (2015)
“He recovered well enough to live much as he always had, but he knew something was missing, an inner strength or confidence that had been a reservoir of energy to defy whatever or whoever he felt was working against him. It was not a condition easily explained, not even to himself. Pace could handle this sign of vulnerability but it was not easy for him to get used to.
On the local radio station the morning after the day Pace dreamed that Misty Tonga called him, there was a bulletin alerting... listeners to be on the lookout for a missing child, a seven year-old African-American girl from Bug Town, the community just west of Bay St. Clement, named Gagool Angola. Her mother, Oswaldina Capoverde, said that the child either had been kidnapped or run away, she didn’t know which. Gagool’s father, Rangoon “Ray-Ray” Angola, from whom Oswaldina was divorced, was doing a dime in Pee Dee for aggravated assault, so he was not a suspect if indeed the girl had been stolen.MoreLess
On the local radio station the morning after the day Pace dreamed that Misty Tonga called him, there was a bulletin alerting... listeners to be on the lookout for a missing child, a seven year-old African-American girl from Bug Town, the community just west of Bay St. Clement, named Gagool Angola. Her mother, Oswaldina Capoverde, said that the child either had been kidnapped or run away, she didn’t know which. Gagool’s father, Rangoon “Ray-Ray” Angola, from whom Oswaldina was divorced, was doing a dime in Pee Dee for aggravated assault, so he was not a suspect if indeed the girl had been stolen.MoreLess
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