In PEOPLE RUIN EVERYTHING, Parrish turns her sharp, compassionate eye toward the quiet devastations of love, marriage, family, aging, and regret. The nineteen stories in this collection move through broken relationships, missed chances, secrets hiding in plain sight, and the ache of truths revealed too late. Realism anchors the collection, but restrained elements of magical realism appear throughout, not as spectacle, but as pressure. The uncanny arrives where emotional life has already begun to crack.