``Nine Inches,`` Tom Perrotta\'s first true collection, features ten stories some sharp and funny, some mordant and surprising, and a few intense and disturbing.
Whether he\'s dropping into the lives of two teachers and their love lost and found in ``Nine Inches,`` documenting the unraveling of a dad at a Little League game in ``The Smile on Happy Chang\'s Face,`` or gently marking the points of connection between an old woman and a benched high school football player in ``Senior Season,`` Perro. ``Nine Inches,`` Tom Perrotta\'s first true collection, features ten stories some sharp and funny, some mordant and surprising, and a few intense and disturbing