Praise for Percival Everett and Walk Me to the Distance

“Everett’s story has violence and pathos. . . . Unforgettable.”
—People

“Everett manages to tell a great deal about one man’s moral dilemma and cluttered path to repatriation. The note of hope on which this moving story ends, though tentative, is fully deserved.”
—Publishers Weekly

“God bless Percival Everett, whose dozens of idiosyncratic books demonstrate a majestic indifference to literary trends, the market or his critics.”
—The Wall Street Journal

“[Everett is a] prolific genius. . . . A literary jukebox.”
—Elle

“Percival Everett [is] our current Great American Novelist. . . . Everett is one of the most, if not the most, interesting writers working today.”
—Chicago Tribune

“If the unexpected always happens in Everett’s individual novels, the variety across the work also astonishes.”
—The Washington Post

“Percival Everett is a giant of American letters.”
—Hernan Diaz, author of Trust

“One of our culture’s preeminent novelists.”
—Los Angeles Times

“Percival Everett is an audacious, beguiling American master, whose wild trajectory has reached astonishing highs in the past decade.”
—Jonathan Lethem, author of Brooklyn Crime Novel

“[Everett] is a first-rate word wrangler.”
—The Guardian

“Everett is one of the most unpredictable and original novelists working today.”
—NPR

“It is hard to write or even think about his work without sounding like an inferior edition of Percival Everett. . . . One way to evaluate an artist is to observe the quantity and quality of misinterpretation his work begets. By this measure Everett ranks very highly.”
—The New York Times Book Review

“Everett is a true American genius, a master artist.”
—Oprah Daily

“Everett continues to be an endlessly inventive, genre-devouring creator of thoughtful, tender, provocative, and absolutely unpredictable literary wonders.”
—Booklist