Explaining Death To The Dog
By Susan Perabo
1999
First Published
3.73
Average Rating
300
Number of Pages
A Beverly Hills actor must protect his neighbours from his own father, who has taken up jewel theft in his old age. A bored wife spends all her inheritance at an auction. Two straight-A students murder the school bully. This collection of stories draws on the bizarre and the hilarious.
Avg Rating
3.73
Number of Ratings
94
5 STARS
17%
4 STARS
47%
3 STARS
29%
2 STARS
7%
1 STARS
0%
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Author
Susan Perabo
Author · 5 books
Susan Perabo is the author of two novels, "The Fall of Lisa Bellow" and "The Broken Places," and two collections of short stories, "Why They Run the Way They Do" and "Who I Was Supposed to Be." Her fiction has been anthologized in "Best American Short Stories," "Pushcart Prize Stories," and "New Stories from the South," and has appeared in numerous magazines, including One Story, Glimmer Train, Story, The Iowa Review, The Missouri Review, and The Sun. She is Writer in Residence and Professor of Creative Writing at Dickinson College and on the faculty of the Queens University low-residency MFA program.
