Praise for Percival Everett: ". . . Artful and literate, Everett explores the philosophical, the metaphysical, the physical and the psychological boundaries of human life . . ." --Terry D'Auray ". . . Everett achieves a primal sense of dislocation, forcing us to question how we determine the limits of the human . . . " --Sven Birkets, The New York Times ". . . The audacious, uncategorizable Everett. He mixes genre and tone with absolute abandon, never does the same song twice. Brilliant . . ." --The Boston Globe ". . . An author who dances with language as effortlessly as Fred Astaire." --Daniel Quinn, author of Ishmael