Why They Run the Way They Do: Stories

Why They Run the Way They Do: Stories

â€œDarkly beautiful stories about love and loss and every gradation between. Each one is suffused with astonishing wit and tenderness. Well worth the wait!â€ â€”Jenny Offill, New York Times bestselling author of Department of Speculation

â€œReminiscent of George Saundersâ€¦These ingenious and lovable stories crack open the world.â€ â€”Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

From the celebrated author of Who I Was Supposed to Be comes twelve beautiful short stories celebrating the everyday truths of people facing unusual or challenging situationsâ€¦often of their own making.

In Why They Run the Way They Do, critically acclaimed author Susan Perabo illustrates the triumphs and tragedies of daily life. Perfectly distilled into moments of sharp humor and poignancy, her latest collection features ordinary people in sometimes extraordinary circumstances. Two young students try their hand at blackmail upon learning an illicit secret; a woman grapples with feelings of betrayal after discovering her spinster sisterâ€™s pregnancy test; the ghost of a coupleâ€™s past comes back to haunt them in the form of their toddlerâ€™s stuffed toy.

Weaving the banal and bizarre together, â€œPeraboâ€™s clear, wry sentences meld a prose style that's reminiscent of Raymond Carverâ€™s with a sensibility that's informed by Peopleâ€ (The New York Times). Here, this â€œliterary talentâ€ (The Boston Globe) captures the human condition through struggles that are quiet and grand; dark and provocative. Brilliantly crafted, Why They Run the Way They Do is ultimately an homage to the philosophy that life without humor is no life at all.

Country	USA
Author	Susan Perabo
Binding	Hardcover
EAN	9781476761435
ISBN	1476761434
Label	Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	208
PublicationDate	2016-02-16
Publisher	Simon & Schuster
ReleaseDate	2016-02-16
Studio	Simon & Schuster

Why They Run the Way They Do: Stories

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