“You fall down here in Kingsboro, Ohio, you’re in good company,” says Brock, the narrator of Charles Baxter’s new novel, “Blood Test.” True enough, a lot of things are going sideways for Brock and ...

It's a challenging time for social satire: For one thing, the country sometimes seems as divided by what it finds funny as it is by politics. But Blood Test, a new novel by Charles Baxter, perhaps ...