Welcome to the Goat Rodeo

From an Amazon review: "Tom Barlow's stories are quirky, sharply drawn, wildly varied, often funny and always deeply compassionate. His protagonists are almost always people who I would not ordinarily encounter (and some I would never dream of) and the window he offers into their inner lives makes even the strangest among them believable. The twists in his stories often have me flipping back to the beginning, thinking "should I have seen that coming?" Usually the answer is "yes, I should, because he threw out some clues..".but I got so absorbed in the characters and their stories that I didn't think to predict the ending."