A bizarre, sunstruck novel that feels less like a tidy narrative than a series of accidents unfolding under a pitiless sky.

Interesting Facts About the State of Arizona moves through the American desert by way of dislocation, obsession, bad decisions, and the kind of people who seem only half-attached to their own lives.

Poolman's Arizona is a place of mirages, stalled momentum, comic humiliations, and private derangements. The book is dry, deadpan, and faintly unhinged, with a drift-and-collision energy that gives it its own peculiar charge.

For readers who like fiction that is heat-addled, elusive, and a little ugly in the best way.