The Best American Short Stories 2021
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Jesmyn Ward. (2021). The Best American Short Stories 2021. Unabridged HarperAudio.

Jesmyn Ward. 2021. The Best American Short Stories 2021. HarperAudio.

Jesmyn Ward, The Best American Short Stories 2021. HarperAudio, 2021.

Jesmyn Ward. The Best American Short Stories 2021. Unabridged HarperAudio, 2021.

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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

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