Recent reads from Jessica Anthony, Kevin Wilson, and David Small

The Convalescent by Jessica Anthony: Wildly imaginative, funny, and sad first novel that documents the odd ancestry and odder life of Rovar Pfliegman, a diminutive Hungarian who sells meat out of a stalled bus in the middle of a field in Virginia.  It gets weirder and more wonderful from there.  So says Rovar, in some of the best coupling of lines I've read this year:

"I may be sick.  I may come from a hole in the ground.  My best friend may be an insect.

But at least I don't live in decent...