Everyone Was There — Anthony Varallo

"Anthony Varallo's Everyone Is There is one of the most beautiful experiments I've ever read. The gods of absurdity--Barthelme and Millhauser--hover over these pages, yet Varallo's voice--its gravity, its intelligence, its deep, brilliant, kind sense of humor, its crazy sympathy--flows so generously and originally through these pages. For me, this is a book to study and cherish." --Rebecca Lee, author of Bobcat and Other Stories