Everybody Knows

<p><span style=color: rgba(94 94 94 1)>The rain-sodden southern world of David Wesley Williams' </span><em style=color: rgba(94 94 94 1)>Everybody Knows </em><span style=color: rgba(94 94 94 1)>overflows with satiric fun as it churns up a rich detritus of Biblical allusions political backstory musical opinions literary puns and local anecdotes. The story set a decade hence introduces a raft of characters too including musicians an escaped felon a tyrannical governor atop his state's old electric chair various and likable sidekicks and mistresses and even a writer the ironic double of the work's author whose enthusiasm for his subject matter spills over into strongly opinionated footnotes. And that's all before the pirates arrive. Original energetic and obsessive </span><em style=color: rgba(94 94 94 1)>Everybody Knows</em><span style=color: rgba(94 94 94 1)> recalls the worlds of Faulkner Welty Flannery O'Connor Kurt Vonnegut and John Kennedy Toole in its broad wit and sorrowful joy.  </span></p>