Percival Everett Percival Everett is the author of more than 30 books, most recently The Trees, which has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and Telephone, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

Very Polite | Fiction

Percival Everett

I drove onto the road from the Goodwill parking lot without a mishap. I wondered whether that was the same as driving out with a hap. I could see that my route was exceedingly simple, one road, Interstate 95 all the way to Washington. I was not driving south because I had been instructed to drive south, though I had been, but because I, contrary to my nature, was concerned...