Summary

The first section of the Novel, titled "Marion County," begins with limited-omniscient narration from Levi King's perspective. The narration is very close to Levi's perspective and told in a past-tense soon after the events occurred, making it seem also like present-tense. He was in the middle of crossing Caddo Lake in his "pappy's old twelve-foot V-bottomed skiff," hoping to make it home before sundown otherwise "Dana would have his tail" (3). Levi revealed that he is not normally allowed to be out on open water alone. He reflected on how "Gil said there wasn't nothing like it nowhere else in the country, the only lake to cross two counties and a state line" (3, 4). Levi does not have much respect or admiration for Gil, not like his "real daddy" (4). The narrator observed that "in just the past few minutes, the light had melted from the...