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The best American short stories 2016 / selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines by Junot Díaz with Heidi Pitlor ; with an introduction by Junot Díaz. - xx, 311 pages ; 22 cm. - The best American series . - Best American series. .

Apollo / Ravalushan / Garments / Wonders of the shore / The bears / The great silence / The flower / The Letician Age / For the god of love, for the love of god / The suitcase / Treasure state / Pat + Sam / Cold little bird / The politics of the quotidian / Bridge / The prospectors / On this side / Gifted / Secret stream / Williamsburg Bridge / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie -- Mohammed Naseehu Ali -- Tahmima Anam -- Andrea Barrett -- Sarah Shun-lien Bynum -- Ted Chiang -- Louise Erdrich -- Yalitza Ferreras -- Lauren Groff -- Meron Hadero -- Smith Henderson -- Lisa Ko -- Ben Marcus -- Caille Millner -- Daniel J. O'Malley -- Karen Russell -- Yuko Sakata -- Sharon Solwitz -- Héctor Tobar -- John Edgar Wideman.

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."

ISBN: 9780544582750 (hardback) 0544582756 (hardback) 9780544582897 (paperback) 0544582896 (paperback)

Source: BRO-adap20161019-060

LCCN: 2017486720

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Short stories, American.
Short stories, Canadian.
American fiction--21st century.
Canadian fiction--21st century.
Canadian fiction--21st century--Fiction.
American fiction--21st century--Fiction.
American fiction.
Canadian fiction.
Short stories, American.
Short stories, Canadian.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Short stories.
Short stories.
Short stories.
Short stories.

LC Class. No.: PS659.2 / .B475 2016

Dewey Class. No.: 813/.010806