The Last Payphone on the West Coast is a short story collection of rare realness- centered around folks finding analog moments amongst the age of instantaneous expectation. The twelve stories wander around the North American continent, showing us an underground collector in New Orleans, a self-aware hearse facing retirement in New York, and an apparition in Mexico City. Told with a tint of the surreal, these stories are alive with the people that reside in them. Perin's humanity shows, manifesting in the meaning of small but authentic gestures.