Toll Booth

by Michael Aronovitz

The volume of this book corresponds to 116 paperback pages.

James Raybeck has been sitting at a small toll station along Route 79 for almost 40 years now, doing a job that no one else but him could stand for so long. Former colleagues report of fainting spells, strange visions, apparitions and frequent anaemia.

James, however, knows that these mysterious incidents have something to do with him, because the past of the toll station does not come to rest, a past that he has decisively shaped. He also knows that he has to pay a damn high price for it. In the certainty of his imminent death James tells his story – the story of a misunderstood friendship with the coolest guy in school, Kyle Skinner…