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Graywolf Press
September 2015
On Sale: September 15, 2015
88 pages
ISBN: 1555977197
EAN: 9781555977191
Kindle: B0140NXXJC
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Fiction
Percival Everett's long-awaited new collection of stories,
his first since 2004's Damned If I Do, finds him traversing
the West with characteristic restlessness. A deaf Native
American girl wanders off into the desert and is found
untouched in a den of rattlesnakes. A young boy copes with
the death of his sister by angling for an unnaturally large
trout in the creek where she drowned. An old woman rides her
horse into a mountain snowstorm and sees a long-dead beloved
dog. For the plainspoken men and women of these stories--fathers
and daughters, sheriffs and veterinarians--small events
trigger sudden shifts in which the ordinary becomes
unfamiliar. A harmless comment about how to ride a horse
changes the course of a relationship, a snakebite gives rise
to hallucinations, and the hunt for a missing man reveals
his uncanny resemblance to an actor. Half an Inch of Water
tears through the fabric of the everyday to examine what
lies beneath the surface of these lives. In the hands of
master storyteller Everett, the act of questioning leads to
vistas more strange and unsettling than could ever have been
expected.
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