Safe from the Neighbors is a novel of unusual richness and depth, one that's as wise about the small shocks within a marriage as it is about the troubled history of Mississippi. Steve Yarbrough is a formidably talented novelist, shuttling between the past and present with a grace that feels effortless.
Tom PerrottaI was a garbage man in New Jersey in summers during college at Yale. Everybody else got to go to Switzerland and I got to go to the dump.
Tom PerrottaApparently even the most awful tragedies, and the people they'd ruined, got a little stale after a while.
Tom PerrottaI've been a little bit obsessed with religion, without being a religious person, for about a decade.
Tom PerrottaMy wife and I left New York when she got pregnant - we just thought it would be really hard to stay in the city.
Tom Perrotta