"Damned If I Do" is a collection of exceptionally postmodern tales by Booker Prize double nominee James Everett, author of "The Trees" and "Erasure". In these stories, we meet an artist, a police officer, a cowboy, several fishermen, and a hesitant romantic novelist. An elderly man participates in a police chase after stealing the car blocking the entrance to his apartment building's dumpster. A stranger is hired at a sandwich shop and fixes everything around him: an automatic mustard dispenser, a mouth full of crooked teeth, thirty-two parking tickets, and a sexual identity problem. Everett dissects race, class, identity, surrealism, and much more in this enchanting collection of short stories from one of America's most innovative contemporary writers. Part of the Picador Collection, a series celebrating fifty years of Picador books and showcasing the best of contemporary literature.