The Best American Short Stories 2016
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.
Format: Book
Description: xx, 311 pages ; 22 cm.
From a Nigerian boy's friendship with his family's former houseboy to a sweatshop girl's experience as a sister wife, from love and murder on the frontier to a meltdown in academe, these stories have the economy and power to "break hearts bones vanities and cages."
Series: Best American series.
Other Authors:
Díaz, Junot, 1968- editor.
Pitlor, Heidi, editor.
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 1977- contributor.
Ali, Mohammed Naseehu, 1971- contributor.
Anam, Tahmima, 1975- contributor.
Barrett, Andrea, contributor.
Bynum, Sarah Shun-lien, contributor.
Chiang, Ted, contributor.
Erdrich, Louise, contributor.
Ferreras, Yalitza, 1971- contributor.
Groff, Lauren, contributor.
Hadero, Meron, contributor.
Henderson, Smith (Joshua Smith), contributor.
Ko, Lisa, contributor.
Marcus, Ben, 1967- contributor.
Millner, Caille, contributor.
O'Malley, Daniel, contributor.
Russell, Karen, 1981- contributor.
Sakata, Yuko, 1977- contributor.
Solwitz, Sharon, 1945- contributor.
Tobar, Héctor, 1963- contributor.
Wideman, John Edgar, contributor.
Díaz, Junot, 1968- editor.
Pitlor, Heidi, editor.
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 1977- contributor.
Ali, Mohammed Naseehu, 1971- contributor.
Anam, Tahmima, 1975- contributor.
Barrett, Andrea, contributor.
Bynum, Sarah Shun-lien, contributor.
Chiang, Ted, contributor.
Erdrich, Louise, contributor.
Ferreras, Yalitza, 1971- contributor.
Groff, Lauren, contributor.
Hadero, Meron, contributor.
Henderson, Smith (Joshua Smith), contributor.
Ko, Lisa, contributor.
Marcus, Ben, 1967- contributor.
Millner, Caille, contributor.
O'Malley, Daniel, contributor.
Russell, Karen, 1981- contributor.
Sakata, Yuko, 1977- contributor.
Solwitz, Sharon, 1945- contributor.
Tobar, Héctor, 1963- contributor.
Wideman, John Edgar, contributor.
Contents:
Apollo / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie -- Ravalushan / Mohammed Naseehu Ali -- Garments / Tahmima Anam -- Wonders of the shore / Andrea Barrett -- The bears / Sarah Shun-lien Bynum -- The great silence / Ted Chiang -- The flower / Louise Erdrich -- The Letician Age / Yalitza Ferreras -- For the god of love, for the love of god / Lauren Groff -- The suitcase / Meron Hadero -- Treasure state / Smith Henderson -- Pat + Sam / Lisa Ko -- Cold little bird / Ben Marcus -- The politics of the quotidian / Caille Millner -- Bridge / Daniel J. O'Malley -- The prospectors / Karen Russell -- On this side / Yuko Sakata -- Gifted / Sharon Solwitz -- Secret stream / Héctor Tobar -- Williamsburg Bridge / John Edgar Wideman.
Subjects:
Short stories, American.
Short stories, Canadian.
American fiction -- 21st century.
Canadian fiction -- 21st century.
Short stories, American.
Short stories, Canadian.
American fiction -- 21st century.
Canadian fiction -- 21st century.
ISBN:
9780544582750
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
F Best 2016 | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Fiction | In |