Lost In Everett's Hall Of Metafictional Mirrors

Lost In Everett's Hall Of Metafictional Mirrors Percival Everett by Virgil Russell By Percival L. Everett Purchase BookPurchase close overlay Buy Featured Book Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Sponsor Message Enlarge this image toggle caption Graywolf Press Graywolf Press In this new book, Everett, a character himself, gives us a series of encounters with his father in a nursing home, where the old man has gone to go to pieces. As the book moves along, the question of the narrator's identity constantly comes into play — is it the younger Everett who is narrating or is it the father? Occasionally — as when we get a thread of narrative about a lonely horse-owning narrator's encounter with a female veterinarian, or the physician character's encounter with a meth-lab family — the pages pulse with the force that Everett often makes us feel in his more traditional fiction.