Tom Perrotta’s new collection of stories, Nine Inches, paints a vibrant portrait of community living in the affluent suburbs, giving equal weight to its tragedies and successes. As Alix Ohlin writes on the collection, Perrotta’s portrait is “an essential, if at times heartbreaking, facet of our modern lives marks him as the descendant of such chroniclers of small-town America as Thornton Wilder, John O’Hara and Willa Cather.”
