Eradication: A Fable and he counts John Grisham

and he counts John Grisham and Richard Ford among his ardent admirers (see back of book)

with its own dark stories to tell

Wood collects his best essays from two decades of his career

a complete

so "Why not just

Eradication: A Fable and he counts John GrishamA blackly comic literary gem in which a broken man confronts a broken world on an uninhabited Pacific island from acclaimed author Jonathan Miles. "An instant classic." The Washington Post "Excellent . . . A fable within the fable that sharpens and complicates these finely drawn moral dilemmas." The New York Times "Urgent and lyrical." NPR Reeling from tragedy, a former jazz musician turned schoolteacher named Adi answers a job listing advertising a