A review by interrowhimper
Universal Harvester by John Darnielle

4.0

This book was as strange as I expected after reading Wolf in White Van. Not so captivating, but just as unsettling. John has a way of writing a perspective that's somehow oblique to what's going on. You keep waiting to intercept the gist of things. The prose is completely beautiful. He writes simple things, in ways that make me suddenly understand them.

As a person who grew up on the plains and spends a lot of time driving through Iowa and southern Minnesota and eastern Nebraska, I had a deep appreciation for the way he describes those places. The corn, the culture, the wind. The winter.

This is a haunting book, but beautiful.