American Desert

American Desert is a dark, fantastical tale of a man who dies by decapitation in a car accident, and then comes back to life, to the incredulity of everyone around him, and to his own astonishment. In this experimental, satirical, bizarre and oddly funny novel, Percival Everett once again takes on the assumptions of a culture whose priorities have gone way out of whack, lampooning the press, religion, academia and offering, ultimately, an existential meditation of what constitutes being alive.