Cockfight ~ María Fernanda Ampuero
DESCRIPTION: Named one of the ten best fiction books of 2018 by the New York Times en Español, Cockfight is the debut work by Ecuadorian writer and journalist María Fernanda …
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Help Yourself ~ Curtis Sittenfeld
DESCRIPTION: Sittenfeld’s wryly hilarious and insightful new collection, HELP YOURSELF, illuminates human experience and gracefully upends our assumptions about class and race, envy and disappointment, gender and celebrity. Suburban friends …
The BBC National Short Story Award 2020
DESCRIPTION: Edited by Jonathan Freedland A young woman’s birthday party is disturbed by the vision of a homeless man sleeping under an arrangement of mocking fruit… A late-night text conversation goes …
Famished ~ Anna Vaught
DESCRIPTION: In this dark and toothsome collection, Anna Vaught enters a strange world of apocryphal feasts and disturbing banquets. Famished explores the perils of selfish sensuality and trifle while child …
F*ckface and Other Stories ~ Leah Hampton
DESCRIPTION: F*ckface is a brassy, bighearted debut collection of twelve short stories about rurality, corpses, honeybee collapse, and illicit sex in post-coal Appalachia. The twelve stories in this knockout collection–some comedic, …
She-Clown and Other Stories ~ Hannah Vincent
DESCRIPTION: These fierce and funny feminist stories shine with everyday heroines at work and at play. Ordinary lives are transformed as women try to be themselves while clowning around for …
Alligator and Other Stories ~ Dima Alzayat
DESCRIPTION: In Alligator and Other Stories, Dima Alzayat captures luminously how it feels to be ‘other’: as a Syrian, as an Arab, as an immigrant, as a woman. Each story of …
A House is a Body ~ Shruti Swamy
DESCRIPTION: Dreams collide with reality, modernity with antiquity, and myth with identity in the twelve arresting stories of A House Is a Body. In “Earthly Pleasures,” a young painter living alone …
The Goddess of Macau ~ Graeme Hall
DESCRIPTION: This short story collection paints complex characters, Macau myths and magic, all set in the former Portuguese colony of Macau. Macau was one of the first European settlements in Asia (founded …
The Ice Cream Man & Other Stories ~ Sam Pink
DESCRIPTION: It was maybe the first job I’d ever had where people were happy to see me.An odd feeling indeed, to wield this kind of power.To be this kind of …