Keane, however, paints a far more
sympathetic picture of a woman who never set out to harm anyone, but rather lived in denial and worked to improve her circumstances and to help those around her.
Two other eccentrics appear: an old
woman raking through her incinerated home for her pilot's license, and feeling «like I'm digging through my own ashes»; and Lance LeGault's ornery old moonshine - slugging trucker (
pictured above), bluntly impatient
of these callow fools but
sympathetic to them, in a somewhat terrifying way.