In this short story collection, Perillo explores what makes people happy and whether or not they realize they are happy. A woman has a door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman demonstrate his vacuum to her as she is unable to clean-up other areas of her life, including her son who has just microwaved a neighbor’s telephone. A young woman and her sister Louisa who has Down syndrome appear in three stories; Louisa tries to leave what she considers to be a normal life and while trying to protect Louisa from their mother and things in the outside world. The characters and situations in these stories are all familiar to us as we see ourselves in small ways, wanting to love, wanting to be loved and just giving in to our surroundings when it all gets to be too much.
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