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Who I Was Supposed To Be : Short Stories by Susan Perabo is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Who I Was Supposed To Be : Short Stories about?
Behind every face in Who I Was Supposed to Be, Susan Perabo's incandescent, devilishly hilarious debut short story collection, there is something simmering, a singular quirk to explore, a peculiarity to celebrate. In the world of her fiction, nothing can be taken for granted, and there is no such thing as the run of the mill: here, a retired grocer takes up jewel theft in his twilight years; a data processor squanders her inheritance on a gown from Princess Diana's collection; a mugging victim, newly separated from his wife, feigns amnesia to win back her love; a teenage pyromaniac finds release in the company of her mother's jilted second husband. In the tradition of Lorrie Moore, the stories in this collection celebrate the absence of normalcy, the quirkiness of the human condition, the everyday deviance of "ordinary" people. In story after story, Perabo peels back the layers of the banal and the bizarre, revealing a world that is at once stunning and familiar, shocking yet comforting. Through her slightly off-center lens, she provides a fresh and penetrating look at human nature, giving us a glimpse of the extraordinary in the ordinary, the magic in the smallest of gestures.
Who reads Who I Was Supposed To Be : Short Stories?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Susan Perabo
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780743290371
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Short Stories, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.9 / 5 (142 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14