I'm bored, and this book rules, so here's the first paragraph of Already Dead by Denis Johnson.
August 7, 1990
Van Ness felt a gladness and wonder as he drove past the small isolated towns along U.S. 101 in Northern California, a certain interest, a yearning, because he sensed they were places a person could disappear into. They felt like little naps you might never wake up from--you might throw a tire and hike to a gas station and stumble unexpectedly onto the rest of your life, the people who would finally mean something to you, a woman, an immortal friend, a saving fellowship in the religion of some obscure church. But such a thing as small as a detour into deep and permanent changes, at the time, anyway, that he was travelling down the coast fro Seattle into Mendocino County, wasn't even to be dreamt of in Van Ness's world.