TY  - BOOK
AU  - Perabo,Susan
TI  - Why they run the way they do: stories 
SN  - 9781476761435
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New York
PB  - Simon & Schuster
KW  - Short stories, American
N1  - The payoff --; Michael the armadillo --; Story goes --; Shelter --; Why they run the way they do --; This is not that story --; Switzerland --; End of days --; Life off my E --; A proper burial --; Indulgence --; Treasure
N2  - "A 'darkly beautiful' collection 'suffused with astonishing wit and tenderness' (Jenny Offill, New York Times bestselling author of Dept. of Speculation). 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 situations & 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 sister's pregnancy test; the ghost of a couple's past comes back to haunt them in the form of their toddlers stuffed toy. Weaving the banal and bizarre together, 'Perabo's clear, wry sentences meld a prose style that's reminiscent of Raymond Carver's with a sensibility that's informed by People' (The New York Times). Here, this 'literary talent' (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."--Amazon.com
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