As the title suggests, religion has a lot to do with the story, as does the Southern setting | She packs her things and is sitting in her car in the middle of the night, debating |
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There was a piece of white cardboard stuck in the window advertising a meat loaf special for thirty-five cents | Lee knows the only thing that separates him from all the other sinners is that he's the law |
Maybe more impressively, The Devil All the Time makes you care for some of the broken souls inhabiting its two map-speck towns.
4Earskell chuckled a little to himself at the thought of that | He starts pleading with Arvin, saying that coming clean would ruin him |
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Helen is immediately taken with him, and he notices her among the pews | His mother had fixed him a meat loaf the day before he left for the army, and he considered that a good sign |