![]() Darnielle teases versions of the story where Jeremy’s curiosity subsides, and he’s able to find a happier ending, moving to a bigger city or finding a better job. As he inches toward some explanation of the videotapes, we get references to police reports, diaries of main characters read years later. This is the unsettling lead to John Darnielle’s second novel, Universal Harvester, a book about twenty-somethings unraveling a mystery located within the sleepy Midwestern sprawl. Recently, customers at the Video Hut in Nevada, Iowa-the video rental store where Jeremy works, and which Sarah Jane owns-have returned copies of teen rom-com She’s All That and Peter Bogdanovich-directed drama Targets that they claim are just a little… off. Nothing interesting ever goes on in rural Iowa, but nevertheless, something strange has happened to Jeremy Heldt and Sarah Jane Shepherd. ![]()
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