Nine Inches: Stories Audiobook

Quotes

• “In this strong collection of short stories, Perrotta once again peeks behind the living-room curtains of manicured suburbia and imagines characters whose lives are less than tidy.”

  — People

• “The novelist who so perfectly captured the insanity of suburbia in The Leftovers and Little Children returns to the form that made him famous in this darkly comic collection of stories.”

  — Entertainment Weekly

• “Perrotta fixates on small-town types whose complex quirks make them not extraordinary or noble but average; what is extraordinary is Perrotta’s empathic insight into how his characters cope—or, short of that, forget.”

  — Elle

• “The descendant of such chroniclers of small-town America as Thornton Wilder, John O’Hara, and Willa Cather...Perrotta’s language never announces itself; it recedes into the background, allowing the characters, with their convincing and contemporary dialogue, to drive the narrative in a way that sounds organic and true.”

  — New York Times

• “The ray of light in Perrotta’s new stories comes from his characters’ belated recognition of their foibles and failures and their earnest and quintessentially American yearning to do better.”

  — NPR

• “[A] wickedly funny collection of suburbia-skewering stories.”

  — Harper’s Bazaar

• “Perrotta’s stuff is dark, but it goes down so easy, especially when bite-size.”

  — New York

• “Perrotta is that rare combination: a satirist with heart…Those who haven’t curled up on the couch with this writer’s books are missing a very great pleasure.”

  — Seattle Times

• “The acclaimed novelist displays perfect tonal pitch in this story collection, as nobody explores the darker sides of suburbia with a lighter touch.”

  — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

• “Told with wit and grace, Perrotta’s story collection lays bare the shifting relationships we all suffer and seldom comprehend, presenting characters who are ambushed by the hidden intentions of people they thought they knew.”

  — Publishers Weekly