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Summary

Damned If I Do is an exceptional new collection of short stories by Percival Everett, author of the highly praised and wickedly funny novel Erasure. 
 
People are just naturally hopeful, a term my grandfather used to tell me was more than occasionally interchangeable with stupid. 
 
A cop, a cowboy, several fly fishermen, and a reluctant romance novelist inhabit these revealing and often hilarious stories. An old man ends up in a high–speed car chase with the cops after stealing the car that blocks the garbage bin at his apartment building. A stranger gets a job at a sandwich shop and fixes everything in sight: a manual mustard dispenser, a mouthful of crooked teeth, thirty–two parking tickets, and a sexual–identity problem. 
 
Percival Everett is a master storyteller who ingeniously addresses issues of race and prejudice by simultaneously satirizing and celebrating the human condition.

Duration: about 4 hours (04:14:42)
Publishing date: 2026-01-27; Unabridged; Copyright Year: 2004. Copyright Statment: —

• Contemporary Fiction
• Short Stories
• Essay