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Half an Inch of Water by Percival Everett
Set in the contemporary American west and centered on husbandry,
mystery, and racial politics (on, Everett says, “the West that exists”),
Half an Inch of Water is a departure from Everett’s more conspicuously
experimental work. Dry, sincere, quiet—the collection reminds us that
these adjectives aren’t naughty words, and that Everett’s gifts are as
limitless as the landscape about which he writes.

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