Synopsis 

Over the course of 13 days in January 2021, a literary editor recounts for an interviewer a neighborhood gathering that took place two months earlier. But to fully, fairly explain all that happened and why events unfolded as they did, he believes he must tell a longer story about his depressed rural county, his colorful neighbors, and the terrible effects of the pandemic. As the tragedy of that gathering—Community Day 2020—is slowly revealed, we learn more about the narrator’s career and relationships and begin to question how much of his entertaining account can be believed.