If You're Still Reading Fiction, Read Percival Everett

The short stories in Percival Everett’s Half an Inch of Water are deceptively simple, and yet you finish each one with a distinct sense of unease and and weird wonder about what just happened. (In the best way possible.) These are good, solid stories that leave you feeling differently than you did when you started them, and really, how often does that happen anymore? Everett may be the best American author writing today, but even if you are someone who prefers the Jonathan Franzens and Jennifer Weiners of the world you will still find plenty to enjoy here. The man doesn’t waste a word. Would that this were so of everyone else. I will just urge you to pick up a copy of this book and go silent myself. You’re welcome.