books.google.com - Tom Perrotta explains in his introduction that "all of [these stories] took me somewhere I didn't expect to go, and jolted me into that state of heightened awareness and emotional receptivity that's one of the great rewards of reading good fiction." The characters in these stories seek to discover something...http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Best_American_Short_Stories_2012.html?id=QZIHpFFFuXIC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Best American Short Stories 2012