Maggie Shipstead‘s collection of 10 short stories, all previously published, gives readers the inspiring experience of charting the maturation of one of America‘s finest authors.
The stories in Night of the Living Rez build on themselves the way a life builds: messily, unpredictably, with beauty and heartache and never quite in the way you expect.
Learning to Talk is a brief, unusual and ultimately fascinating amalgam of fact and fiction as two-time Booker Prize-winning author Hilary Mantel sorts through the puzzle pieces of her past.
The tales in Jess Walter‘s The Angel of Rome and Other Stories aren‘t easily categorized, but each one provides a refreshingly honest glimpse into what it means to be alive.
Yoon Choi explores the Korean American experience and the complexities of human connection in her beautifully crafted story collection, Skinship.
Author Bolu Babalola re-envisions traditional love stories from West Africa, the Middle East and Greece with a focus on empowered female characters.
The female characters in Gwen E. Kirby’s collection are sometimes sinners and never saints, as complex as the real-life women we know and love.
After reading Jean Chen Ho’s novel-in-stories, readers will feel as though they carry some part of Fiona and Jane with them.
The final, posthumous work of Carlos Ruiz Zafón dwells in the familiar, fantastical literary terrain that he claimed as his own.
In her first story collection, Lily King’s observations are somehow both sharp and generous. They’re worth dipping into again and again.
In her debut collection, Jocelyn Nicole Johnson doesn’t shy away from any topic as she calmly delivers a ruthless kind of truth.
As in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, the characters in Gordo are often poor in economic terms but lead richly complex lives.
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