In this collection, ordinary humans are pushed to do things in out-of-the-ordinary ways. Trotter has conjured a world of Southern hyper-reality in And Dogs to Chase Them: a good Christian woman who pushes a man down the staircase, “as final as flushing the commode;” a concrete deliveryman who ought to have double checked the address before he got out of his truck; and a man who enacts his revenge on the self-declared Queen of the Post Office.

Through a keen eye for detail, Trotter brings to life a world that is at once familiar and deeply odd, and creates characters that stay with a reader long after the book is closed.