Literary Fiction
Percival Everett's Big Picture hilariously explores how quirky catalysts push ordinary lives to the brink of madness or liberating transformation.
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Percival Everett's Big Picture hilariously explores how quirky catalysts push ordinary lives to the brink of madness or liberating transformation.
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The characters in Big Picture, Percival Everett's darkly comic collection of stories, are often driven to explosive, life-changing action. Everett delves into those moments when outside forces bring us to the brink of insanity or liberation.
The catalysts in Everett's tales are surprising: a stuffed boar's head, mounted on the wall of a diner, becomes an object of intense, inexplicable desire; a painter is driven to the point of suicide by a mute who returns day after day to mow the artist's la...
What's Inside
will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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No sexual content depicted
Violence & gore
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Minor references to explosive actions; no graphic depictions
Profanity
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Minor use of strong language in some dialogues
Substance use
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No substance use depicted
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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No LGBTQIA+ representation
Religious content
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No religious themes present
Magic & witchcraft
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No witchcraft or occult elements
Occult / demonology
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No evidence found in available sources.
Political content
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Central themes of racial difficulties for black men in white America and cultural dissolution in some stories
Self-harm / suicide
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One story features a painter driven to the point of suicide; ideation central to that narrative
Abuse & suffering
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Recurring themes of systemic racial suffering and relational cruelty
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