The rain-sodden, southern world of David Wesley Williams Everybody Knows overflows with satiric fun as it churns up a rich detritus of Biblical allusions, political backstory, musical opinions, literary puns, and local anecdote. The story, set a decade hence, introduces a raft of characters, too, including musicians, an escaped felon, a tyrannical governor atop his states old electric chair, various and likable sidekicks and mistresses, and even a writer, the ironic double of the works author, whose enthusiasm for his subject matter spills over into strongly opinionated footnotes. And thats all before the pirates arrive. Original, energetic, and obsessive, Everybody Knows recalls the worlds of Faulkner, Welty, Flannery OConnor, Kurt Vonnegut, and John Kennedy Toole in its broad wit and sorrowful joy. (---publishers description).