The best American short stories 2021 : selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines

Book 2021

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 consequen...

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ISBN:

9781328485380

Description:

xx, 275 pages ; 22 cm

Former Title:

Best American short stories ... and the yearbook of the American short story 0067-6233 (OCoLC)4617191 (DLC) 16011387

Notes:

"Selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines."
Issued with a different guest editor/selector every year
Previous edition: The best American short stories. 2020

Contents:

To Buffalo eastward / Gabriel Bump
The miracle girl / Rita Chang-Eppig
Our children / Vanessa Cuti
The rest of us / Jenzo Duque
Escape from the dysphesiac people / Brandon Hobson
Playing Metal Gear Solid V: the phantom pain / Jamil Jan Kochai
Switzherland / Nicole Krauss
Clementine, Carmelita, dog / David Means
Paradise / Yxta Maya Murrah
Good boy / Eloghosa Osunde
Portrait of two ladies in white and green robes (unidentified artist, circa sixteenth century) / Jane Pek
The last days of Rodney / Tracey Rose Peyton
In this sort of world, the asshole wins / Christa Romanosky
Love letter / George Saunders
A way with Bea / Shanteka Sigers
Haguillory / Stephanie Soileau
You are my dear friend / Madhuri Vijay
Palaver / Bryan Washington
Biology / Kevin Wilson
Least beast / C Pam Zhang

LCCN:

86642792 * sn 83012163

Control Number:

3098639

Other Authors:

Bump, Gabriel, author
Hobson, Brandon, author
Kochai, Jamil Jan, 1992- author
Krauss, Nicole, author
Means, David, 1961- author
Osunde, Eloghosa, author
Pek, Jane, author
Pitlor, Heidi, editor
Saunders, George, 1958- author
Soileau, Stephanie, author
Vijay, Madhuri, author
Ward, Jesmyn, editor
Washington, Bryan, 1993- author
Wilson, Kevin, 1978- author
Zhang, C Pam, author

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