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Short Stories (Single Author) June 2021
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A house is a body : stories
by Shruti Swamy
"In this collection of stories, dreams collide with reality, modernity collides with antiquity, myth with true identity; women grapple with desire, with ego, with motherhood and mortality. The stories travel from India to America and back again to revealthe small moments of beauty, pain, and power that contain the world"
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Throughout this striking debut collection we meet characters who have lied, who have sometimes created elaborate falsehoods, and who now must cope with the way that those deceptions eat at the very fabric of their lives and relationships.
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Mundo Cruel : stories
by Luis Negrón
A collection of short stories set in Santruce, Puerto Rico, describes a tragic and outrageous world, populated by catty mothers, a dog owner whose pet was sent to a taxidermist and a Chosen One who helps fellow churchgoers find God. Original.
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Happiness, like water : stories
by Chinelo Okparanta
Centering around Nigerian women as they build lives out of longing and hope, faith and doubt, this poignant collection of stories follows such characters as a young woman faced with a dangerous decision to save her mother and a woman in love with another despite the penalties. Original.
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Homesick : stories by Nino CipriDark, irreverent, and truly innovative, the speculative stories in Homesick meditate on the theme of home and our estrangement from it, and what happens when the familiar suddenly shifts into the uncanny. In stories that foreground queer relationships and transgender or nonbinary characters, Cipri delivers the origin story for a superhero team comprised of murdered girls; a housecleaner discovering an impossible ocean in her least-favorite clients’ house; a man haunted by keys that appear suddenly in his throat; and a team of scientists and activists discovering the remains of a long-extinct species of intelligent weasels.
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Reconstruction : stories
by Alaya Dawn Johnson
"Johnson digs into the lives of those trodden underfoot by the powers that be: from the lives of vampires and those caught in their circle in Hawai'i to a taxonomy of anger put together by Union soldiers in the American Civil War, these stories will grabyou and not let you go"
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Lot : stories
by Bryan Washington
Coming of age in his family's Houston restaurant, a mixed-heritage teen navigates bullying, his newly discovered sexual orientation and the ripple effects of a disadvantaged community impacted by an affair, a youth baseball season and displaced hurricane survivors.
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Stateway's garden : stories
by Jasmon Drain
A shy, intelligent boy coming of age in 1980s Chicago navigates dreams, poverty and violence through the interlinked short stories of his neighbors as they anticipate the imminent destruction of their housing project. A first collection.
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You will never be forgotten : stories
by Mary South
"A collection of stories featuring characters who use technology to escape their uncontrollable feelings of grief or rage or despair, only to reveal their most flawed and human selves"
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I'm waiting for you : and other stories
by Bo-Young Kim
Four tales of speculative fiction includes the story of an engaged couple trying to fight time and space to get married and a story featuring godlike beings who created Earth and humanity and pass judgement on them. 75,000 first printing.
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First person singular : stories
by Haruki Murakami
Told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator, a new collection by the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award-winning writer explores the boundaries of the mind through subjects ranging from youth and music to baseball and solitude.
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Get in trouble : stories
by Kelly Link
A collection of short stories features tales of a young girl who plays caretaker to mysterious guests at the cottage behind her house and a former teen idol who becomes involved in a bizarre reality show. 40,000 first printing.
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All the names they used for God : stories
by Anjali Sachdeva
A debut collection of nine stories includes four original pieces and follows a diverse sequence of protagonists who struggle with fate, from a steel mill worker who is transformed by the brutal power of the furnaces he works with, to a fisherman who succumbs to an obsession while sailing through overfished waters.
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Sudden traveler : Stories
by Sarah Hall
A master of short fiction, using her signature themes of identity, eroticism and existential quest, presents stories in which the characters walk, drive, dream and fly as they try to reconcile themselves with their journeys through life, death and love. 30,000 first printing.
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