Walk Me to the Distance

Everett's story has violence and pathos, but it is really his terse writing that makes the novel potent. The silences between his taciturn Western characters, like the time bending in good jazz, are loaded with meaning. His characters, alternately pitiful and admirable, are both convincing and memorable . . . This novel is like a winter in Slut's Hole: unsettling, harsh, and ultimately unforgettablePeople

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 deservedPublishers Weekly

American literature’s philosopher king – and its sharpest satiristThe New Yorker

Everett has mastered the movement between unspeakable terror and knockout comedyThe New York Times