The best American short stories 2021 /
The best American short stories 2021 /
- xx, 275 pages ; 22 cm.
- The Best American series .
- Best American series. .
Includes contributors' notes and other distinguished stories of 2020.
To Buffalo eastward / The miracle girl / Our children / The rest of us / Escape from the dysphesiac people / Playing Metal Gear Solid V: the phantom pain / Switzerland / Clementine, Carmelita, dog / Paradise / Good boy / Portrait of two ladies in white and green robes (unidentified artist, circa sixteenth century) / The last days of Rodney / In this sort of world, the asshole wins / Love letter / A way with Bea / Haguillory / You are my dear friend / Palaver / Biology / Least beast / Gabriel Bump -- Rita Chang-Eppig -- Vanessa Cuti -- Jenzo Duque -- Brandon Hobson -- Jamil Jan Kochai -- Nicole Krauss -- David Means -- Yxta Maya Murray -- Eloghosa Osunde -- Jane Pek -- Tracey Rose Peyton -- Christa Romanosky -- George Saunders -- Shanteka Sigers -- Stephanie Soileau -- Madhuri Vijay -- Bryan Washington -- Kevin Wilson -- C Pam Zhang.
In her introduction to The Best American Short Stories 2021, guest editor Jesmyn Ward says that the best fiction offers the reader a "sense of repair." The stories in this year's collection accomplish just that, immersing the reader in powerfully imagined worlds and allowing them to bring some of that power into their own lives. From a stirring portrait of Rodney King's final days to a surreal video game set in the Middle East, with real consequences, to an Indigenous boy's gripping escape from his captors, this collection renders profoundly empathetic depictions of the variety of human experience. These stories are poignant reminders of the possibilities of fiction: as you sink into world after world, become character after character, as Ward writes, you "forget yourself, and then, upon surfacing, know yourself and others anew." --book jacket.
9781328485380 1328485382 9781328485397 1328485390
Short stories, American.
Short stories, Canadian.
American fiction--21st century.
Canadian fiction--21st century.
Short stories.
Short stories.
Fiction.
Short stories.
PS648.S5 / B4 2021
813.087/6
Includes contributors' notes and other distinguished stories of 2020.
To Buffalo eastward / The miracle girl / Our children / The rest of us / Escape from the dysphesiac people / Playing Metal Gear Solid V: the phantom pain / Switzerland / Clementine, Carmelita, dog / Paradise / Good boy / Portrait of two ladies in white and green robes (unidentified artist, circa sixteenth century) / The last days of Rodney / In this sort of world, the asshole wins / Love letter / A way with Bea / Haguillory / You are my dear friend / Palaver / Biology / Least beast / Gabriel Bump -- Rita Chang-Eppig -- Vanessa Cuti -- Jenzo Duque -- Brandon Hobson -- Jamil Jan Kochai -- Nicole Krauss -- David Means -- Yxta Maya Murray -- Eloghosa Osunde -- Jane Pek -- Tracey Rose Peyton -- Christa Romanosky -- George Saunders -- Shanteka Sigers -- Stephanie Soileau -- Madhuri Vijay -- Bryan Washington -- Kevin Wilson -- C Pam Zhang.
In her introduction to The Best American Short Stories 2021, guest editor Jesmyn Ward says that the best fiction offers the reader a "sense of repair." The stories in this year's collection accomplish just that, immersing the reader in powerfully imagined worlds and allowing them to bring some of that power into their own lives. From a stirring portrait of Rodney King's final days to a surreal video game set in the Middle East, with real consequences, to an Indigenous boy's gripping escape from his captors, this collection renders profoundly empathetic depictions of the variety of human experience. These stories are poignant reminders of the possibilities of fiction: as you sink into world after world, become character after character, as Ward writes, you "forget yourself, and then, upon surfacing, know yourself and others anew." --book jacket.
9781328485380 1328485382 9781328485397 1328485390
Short stories, American.
Short stories, Canadian.
American fiction--21st century.
Canadian fiction--21st century.
Short stories.
Short stories.
Fiction.
Short stories.
PS648.S5 / B4 2021
813.087/6