"A Vintage Books original 2024"--Title page verso.

Introduction / Amor Towles -- Roy / Emma Binder (Gulf Coast) -- The soccer balls of Mr. Kurz / Michele Mari ; translated from the Italian by Brian Robert Moore (The New Yorker) -- Orphans / Brad Felver (Subtropics) -- The home visit / Morris Collins (Subtropics) -- The import / Jai Chakrabarti (Ploughshares) -- Didi / Amber Caron (Electric Literature) -- Serranos / Francisco Gonzalez (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) -- Hiding spot / Caroline Kim (New England Review) -- Junior / Katherine D. Stutzman (Harvard Review) -- My good friend / Juliana Leite ; translated from the Portuguese by Zoe Perry (The Paris Review) -- The castle of Rose Tellin / Kate DiCamillo (Harper's Magazine) -- Rain / Colin Barrett (Granta) -- Marital problems / Robin Romm (The Sewanee Review) -- The last grownup / Allegra Goodman (The New Yorker) -- The honor of your presence / Dave Eggers (One Story) -- The paper artist / E. K. Ota (Ploughshares) -- The room-service waiter / Tom Crewe (Granta) -- Seeing through maps / Madeline ffitch (Harper's Magazine) -- The dark / Jess Walter (Ploughshares) -- Mobilization / Allegra Hyde (Story) -- The O. Henry Prize winners 2024: the writers on their work.

"Contains twenty prizewinning stories chosen from the thousands published in magazines over the previous year. Guest editor Amor Towles has curated an exhilarating assemblage of stories by an international array of talented writers. The winning stories are accompanied by an introduction by Towles, fascinating observations from the winning writers on what inspired their work, and an extensive and useful directory of magazines and literary websites that publish short fiction"--