Percival Everett by Virgil Russell

[A] stark, shattering novel… This meta-fiction is deeply moving. * The Wall Street Journal *[Percival Everett is] so humanely adept at getting to the heart of the human condition… . Everett has created much more than an exercise in unreliable narration, an exploration of the nature of language and the rationales we create to keep ourselves going as we grow old. By the conclusion, every sentence, indeed every word, has come to seem like a valuable key, not just to this puzzle of a novel, but to the meaning of existence. * Publishers Weekly *A potent and thoughtful exploration of the bonds between fathers and children. * Washington Post *Within [a] narrative labyrinth, the novel is much more than an academic exercise … as it searches for the possibility of meaning in life as well as narrative and meditates on the process of aging and the inevitability of death * Kirkus Reviews *The heart of storytelling and the heart of a complicated man beat together in this extraordinary meditation on love, language, and the irrevocable action of time. Who tells whose story when and why and how do we know when it’s over? For Everett, it’s never over, and it’s never enough, and it’s the very best thing we’ve got. A novel of surpassing intelligence, grief, and tenderness. – Stacey D’Erasmo, author of The Sky Below

Percival Everett is the author of over thirty published works, including Zulus, Erasure, I Am Not Sidney Poitier, Assumption, Percival Everett by Virgil Russell, Telephone, The Trees and Dr. No. A Guggenheim Fellow and Pulitzer Prize Finalist, Everett has won the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award, the Academy Award in Literature, the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction, and the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize for Fiction. In 2022, The Trees was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Percival Everett lives in Los Angeles, CA, where he is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California.