Shall We Gather at the River

Although the title of Shall We Gather at the River may sound like an invitation to paradise or a communal baptism, it is instead a call to the great graveyard of the Mississippi, for it is in solidarity with the desperate, the suicides--our lookalikes, our brothers--that Wright believes we can most clearly see ourselves. I think this is Wright's greatest book, but I like the earlier The Branch Will Not Break better.

He's sublime.