| Record Number |
793053 |
| ISBN |
9780544582941 (paperback) |
| Title |
The best American short stories® 2018 / selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines by Roxane Gay with Heidi Pitlor ; with an introduction by Roxane Gay. |
| Publisher/Date |
Boston : Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2018] |
| ©2018 |
| Pagination etc. |
xix, 322 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
The best American series |
| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 314-318) |
| Contents note |
Cougar / Maria Anderson -- A family / Jamel Brinkley -- The art of losing / Yoon Choi -- Los Angeles / Emma Cline -- Unearth / Alicia Elliott -- Boys go to Jupiter / Danielle Evans -- A history of China / Carolyn Ferrell -- Come on, Silver / Ann Glaviano -- What got into us / Jacob Guajardo -- Everything is far from here / Cristina Henríquez -- Good with boys / Kristen Iskandrian -- Control Negro / Jocelyn Nicole Johnson -- The Brothers Brujo / Matthew Lyons -- A big true / Dina Nayeri -- Items awaiting protective enclosure / Téa Obreht -- The baptism / Ron Rash -- Suburbia! / Amy Silverberg -- The prairie wife / Curtis Sittenfeld -- Whose heart I long to stop with the click of a revolver / Rivers Solomon -- What terrible thing it was / Esmé Weijun Wang. |
| Summary Note |
The stories chosen transport readers from a fraught family reunion to an immigration detention center, from a psychiatric hospital to a coed class sleepover in a natural history museum. We meet a rebellious summer camper, a Twitter addict, and an Appalachian preacher. |
| Subject |
Short stories, American |
| American fiction -- 21st century |
| Short stories, Canadian |
| Canadian fiction -- 21st century |
| Short stories. |
| Added Author |
Gay, Roxane compiler,
author of introduction, etc. |
| Pitlor, Heidi compiler. |
| Anderson, Maria Cougar. |
| Brinkley, Jamel Family. |
| Choi, Yoon Art of losing. |
| Cline, Emma Los Angeles. |
| Elliott, Alicia Unearth. |
| Evans, Danielle Boys go to Jupiter. |
| Ferrell, Carolyn History of China. |
| Glaviano, Ann Come on, Silver. |
| Guajardo, Jacob What got into us. |
| Henríquez, Cristina, 1977- Everything is far from here. |
| Iskandrian, Kristen Good with boys. |
| Johnson, Jocelyn Nicole Control Negro. |
| Lyons, Matthew Brothers Brujo. |
| Nayeri, Dina Big true. |
| Obreht, Téa Items awaiting protective enclosure. |
| Rash, Ron, 1953- Baptism. |
| Silverberg, Amy Suburbia! |
| Sittenfeld, Curtis Prairie wife. |
| Solomon, Rivers Whose heart I long to stop with the click of a revolver. |
| Wang, Esmé Weijun What terrible thing it was. |
| Shelf Location |
F BEST |
