Why They Run the Way They Do: Stories

In her latest collection, Susan Perabo weaves the banal and bizarre together, capturing the human condition through struggles quiet and grand, dark and provocative.

Two young students try their hand at blackmail upon learning an illicit secret; a woman grapples with feelings of betrayal after discovering her unmarried sister's pregnancy test; the ghost of a couple's past comes back to haunt them in the form of their toddler's stuffed toy. Perabo perfectly distills moments of sharp humor and poignancy in her stories, featuring ordinary people in sometimes extraordinary circumstances.