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