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Title The best American short stories 2021 / Jesmyn Ward, editor.

Publication Info. New York : Mariner Books, [2021]
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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  SC BEST 2021    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield at the Atrium  808.8 BES 2021    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  F BEST    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Barney Branch - Adult Department  808.3 BEST    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  808.83 BES 2021    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  F BEST 2021    DUE 04-10-24
 Granby, Main Library - Adult  808.83 BEST 2021    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Fiction  F BEST 2021    Check Shelf
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 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  813.08 BEST 2021    Check Shelf

Description xx, 275 pages ; 22 cm.
Series Best American series
Best American series.
Summary 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
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.
Subject Short stories, American.
Short stories, Canadian.
American fiction -- 21st century.
Canadian fiction -- 21st century.
Genre/Form Short stories.
Added Author Ward, Jesmyn, editor.
Bump, Gabriel, author.
Hobson, Brandon, author.
Kochai, Jamil Jan, 1992- author.
Krauss, Nicole, author.
Means, David, 1961- author.
Osunde, Eloghosa, author.
Pek, Jane, author.
Saunders, George, 1958- author.
Soileau, Stephanie, author.
Vijay, Madhuri, author.
Washington, Bryan, 1993- author.
Wilson, Kevin, 1978- author.
Zhang, C Pam, author.
ISBN 9781328485380 (hardcover)
1328485382 (hardcover)
9781328485397 (paperback)
1328485390 (paperback)
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