The Best American Short Stories 2021 by Jesmyn Ward

The Best American Short Stories 2021 by Jesmyn Ward

A collection of the year's best stories selected by celebrated two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward

In her introduction to The Best American Short Stories 2021, guest editor JesmynWard says that the best fiction offers the reader a "sense of repair."The stories in this year's collection accomplish just that, immersing the reader in powerfully imagined worlds and allowing them to bring some of that power into their own lives. From a stirring portrait of Rodney King's final days to a surreal video game set in the Middle East,with real consequences, to an indigenous boy's gripping escape from his captors, this collection renders profoundly empathetic depictions of the variety of human experience. These stories are poignant reminders of the possibilities of fiction: as you sink into world after world, become character after character, as Ward writes,you"forget yourself, and then, upon surfacing, know yourself and others anew.

The Best American Short Stories 2021 includes

GABRIEL BUMP * BRANDON HOBSON * DAVID MEANS* JANE PEK * TRACEY ROSE PEYTON * GEORGE SAUNDERS * BRYAN WASHINGTON * KEVIN WILSON * C PAM ZHANG and others

JESMYN WARD is a professor of creative writing at Tulane University and holds an MFA from the University of Michigan. She is the author of the 2011 National Book Award-winning novels Where the Line Bleeds and Salvage the Bones, as well as the 2017 National Book Award-winning novel Sing, Unburied, Sing. She is also the editor of The Fire This Time, an anthology of short stories, and the author of Men We Reaped, a memoir that was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Ward was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University from 2008 to 2010. Ward received the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2016. She is a Mississippi resident.

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ISBN 13	9781328485397
ISBN 10	1328485390
Title	The Best American Short Stories 2021
Author	Jesmyn Ward
Series	Best American Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Year published	2021-10-12
Number of pages	304
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