Beloved humor writer Ellis Parker Butler hits it out of the ballpark with his first full-length novel, âKilo: Being the Love Story of Eliphâ Hewlitt, Book Agentâ. The plot centers around Eliphâ Hewlitt, a travelling book salesman of the horse-and-buggy era who finds the love of his life in Kilo, Iowa and he decides on the spot to marry her and settles down there, peddling books to the locals, but Sally Briggs, the woman whom heâs fixated on, doesnât feel the same way. The comic adventure involves a lot of fire-extinguishers, local graft, the newspaper printer, and various other people of importance in the tiny town. Along the way, we meet several amusing individuals to whom Eliphâ is trying to sell his one-volume encyclopedia.