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The Best American Short Stories

by Barbara Kingsolver

Age band: 18+

Looky Rating System: Violence 2/5, Love & Romance 3/5, Mental Health 2/5, Language 2/5, Substance Use 2/5, Fear / Horror 2/5, Fantasy / Supernatural 1/5, LGBTQ+ Representation 1/5, Sci-Fi / Futuristic 0/5, Disability & Neurodiversity 1/5.

Description

This year"s Best American Short Stories is edited by the critically acclaimed and best-selling author Barbara Kingsolver, whose latest book is Prodigal Summer. Kingsolver"s selections for The Best American Short Stories 2001 showcase a wide variety of new voices and masters, such as Alice Munro, Rick Moody, Dorothy West, and John Updike. "Reading these stories was both a distraction from and an anchor to the complexities of my life -- my pleasure, my companionship, my salvation.