I have loved everything of Tom Perrotta’s that I have read, including all of his novels (including Election and Little Children, among others).
His characters make mistakes — often big ones — that end up sending them on a far different path than the one they were on.
Nine Inches is a short story collection in which his characters (as one reviewer explains) “go astray, break the rules, then find their way back to a different life.”
Read reviews from the New York Times and the Boston Globe.