Descriptionxx, 311 pages ; 22 cm.
Note: ContentApollo / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie -- Ravalushan / Mohammed Naseehu Ali -- Garments / Tahmima Anam -- Wonders of the shore / Andrea Barrett -- The bears / Sarah Shun-lien Bynum -- The great silence / Ted Chiang -- The flower / Louise Erdrich -- The Letician Age / Yalitza Ferreras -- For the god of love, for the love of god / Lauren Groff -- The suitcase / Meron Hadero -- Treasure state / Smith Henderson -- Pat + Sam / Lisa Ko -- Cold little bird / Ben Marcus -- The politics of the quotidian / Caille Millner -- Bridge / Daniel J. O'Malley -- The prospectors / Karen Russell -- On this side / Yuko Sakata -- Gifted / Sharon Solwitz -- Secret stream / Héctor Tobar -- Williamsburg Bridge / John Edgar Wideman.
Abstract: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."
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