The Big Door Prize has one of the grabbiest premises I’ve ever seen–a machine that promises to read your DNA and tell you “what you’re meant to be” appears in a quik-mart in a small town and upends everything and everyone–but underneath that flashy promise is a story with deep heart and lovable, fallible heroes trying to find their own places in a world that’s not been kind or easy. Multiple narrators tell an intricate story that still lands close to home. Like Redhead By the Side of the Road, it’s a story about men going more deeply into their own psyche than they have before, or maybe wanted to, and like Lager Queens it’s got that ordinary-people-with-a-story vibe.