| Author/Contributor(s): | Greer, Andrew Sean; Pitlor, Heidi |
| Publisher: | Mariner Books |
| Date: | 11/1/2022 |
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| Condition: | NEW |
A collection of the year’s best short stories, selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer and series editor Heidi Pitlor.
The anthology gathers voices that navigate sudden hazards and fragile bonds, tracing a mother escaping an armed officer down winter back roads and an Oregon fisherman who pulls an inexplicable child from a tidal weir.
Other selections ground their drama in strange turns of fate, following an Istanbul sanitation worker who shelters forbidden instruments in her attic and a retired New Jersey trash collector driving south to find his aged uncle.
Andrew Sean Greer, “an exceptionally lovely writer, capable of mingling humor with sharp poignancy” (Washington Post), selects twenty stories out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.
- Contemporary Short Stories: At the sacred Ellora caves, a seasoned tour guide awakens to find his body turned to stone, drawing swarms of spectators and state officials eager to claim him as a living monument.
- Dual Timeline: A mother in a quiet Northeast town tracks two parallel realities, weighing her ordinary domestic routines against a decade-long imaginary affair sparked by a chance encounter in a baby group.
- Forced Proximity: An estranged couple in Brooklyn is thrown together in a walk-up apartment during lockdown, monitoring spiked fevers and vanishing scents while sirens echo in the streets below.
- Also by This Author: The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells.