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.”
Ordinary, Complicated Suburbs
Serena Candelaria
Serena Candelaria is a Rumpus intern, and a self-proclaimed fiction addict. This summer, she worked at 29th Street Publishing and began writing a novella. She is currently a senior at Yale, where she studies Literature.