Nine Inches

Nine Inches is a set of short stories told by one Tom Perrotta. It was kind of nice ready a lot of different unrelated tales. I will focus on one of the later ones. Dude is a high school student. He got a job illegally taking SAT tests for other students. He worked for a boss that set up the tests.

Normally this dude would be taking tests for strangers. But this time around, it was for a kid in his school. Obviously the kid came from money. The boss paid our guy $500 to pass the SAT test for his clients. Passing the test was easy. He also had to go to sleep early the prior night, not drink any alcohol, etc.

There was one other problem with the current dude he was taking the test for. The guy went to a party the night before, and hooked up with the girl our guy had the hots for. Oops. You know what that means? Even though our guy knew all the answers to the SAT test, he made sure the client failed the exam miserably.

Now there was a lot more to this story. But that was the crux. The true genius of the stories like this one in the book were the details. It is hard to convey these details in a summary book report. I know I will be looking for more books by Tom Perrotta. Hopefully they will be short story anthologies too.