Trust Your Makers Of Things!: The Metafictional Pact In Dave Eggers' You Shall Know Our Velocity

This article argues that Dave Eggers's You Shall Know Our Velocity invites the reader, via various textual markers, to enter into a "metafictional pact" with the author, through which the reader agrees to view the text as a writerly act, rather than as an object or event; through this pact, a new moral significance is granted to the text and to the relationship formed between author and reader.