smacknee 's review for:

Universal Harvester by John Darnielle

5.0

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As eerie as his first novel, Wolf in White Van. It stays enigmatic until very nearly the final page. John Darnielle writes beautifully about the small-town dichotomy of isolation combined with a claustrophobia born of knowing every single person you see every day. I love how he narrates at times like the Stage Manager in Our Town, musing on how the story might have gone.