The Way Cities Feel to Us Now: and other stories

Bad luck follows travelers through the desert Mormon missionaries contemplate the bodily implications of the internal combustion engine and minimum wage workers look for a sense of meaning in art country and western music and domestic terrorism. A lemon tree produces an alarming number of fruit but nobody can manage to have a threesome. Perkinss first collection of short stories vibrates at the chaotic frequency of the American West a place where the states are square the drives are long and heartbreak is at least as much of a shit show as it is anywhere else.