Benjamin Percy is interested in grace, transcendence, the sudden moments in lives when a glow of feeling appears, brightens the chasm, goes dark again, or doesn’t. He has a fabulous eye for detail, the names of things, weeds, weapons, machines, and renders superbly the revelatory shadings of character. In REFRESH, REFRESH he is unafraid of story, plot, and writes of plain lives in crisis without blinking, in sinewy, rippling prose, the rhythms of his sentences ever taking us more deeply inside.