Erasure, Everett. Yes. I wish I had had a book club to read and discuss this one with, as I strongly suspect Everett was doing things I remained blissfully unaware of. Mechanically very strong, though I was deeply disappointed to see “y’all” rendered as “ya’ll”. There was also a weird OCRish typo: “stones” for “stories” and an instance of “Here, here” for “Hear, hear”. I wondered whether perhaps that last defect was a comment on the speaker; if so, it was too subtle for me.