An electric collection of new short stories from the inimitable, bestselling writer ofTalk to Me andOutside Looking InIn the title story of Walk Between the Raindrops, a woman sits down next to a man at a bar and claims she has ESP. In Thirteen Days, passengers on a cruise line are quarantined, to horrifying and hilarious effect. And Hyena begins simply: That was the day the hyena came for him, and never mind that there were no hyenas in the South of France, and especially not in Pont-Saint-Espritit was there and it came for him.A virtuoso of the short form, T.C. Boyle returns with an inventive, uproarious, and masterfully told collection of short stories characterized by biting satire, resonant wit, and a boundless, irrepressible imagination.

An electric collection of new short stories from the inimitable, bestselling writer ofTalk to Me andOutside Looking InIn the title story of Walk Between the Raindrops, a woman sits down next to a man at a bar and claims she has ESP. In Thirteen Days, passengers on a cruise line are quarantined, to horrifying and hilarious effect. And Hyena begins simply: That was the day the hyena came for him, and never mind that there were no hyenas in the South of France, and especially not in Pont-Saint-Espritit was there and it came for him.A virtuoso of the short form, T.C. Boyle returns with an inventive, uproarious, and masterfully told collection of short stories characterized by biting satire, resonant wit, and a boundless, irrepressible imagination.