The fictional town of Second Samuel, Ga., is populated with characters right out of Faulkner, had he been funny, or Thornton Wilder, had he been wilder.

The town has a mixed bag of gossips, barflies, sad souls and, in a single notable case, the possessor of an unbelievable secret. They all live in the memory of a single, simple soul. B-Flat, the central character in Pamela Parker’s Second Samuel, is a character of limited mental capacity but a keen observer of the human condition. Acting as narrator and Greek chorus, he documents and comments the comings and goings in a small Georgia community in the years after World War II.

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