01828cam a2200289 i 4500 513728389 TxAuBib 20211102120000.0 201126s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781328485380 28.00 1328485382 28.00 TxAuBib rda The best American short stories 2021 [BOOK] / selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines by Jesmyn Ward with Heidi Pitlor ; with an introduction by Jesmyn Ward. Boston : Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2021. xx, 275 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier 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 Jesmyn Ward 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. Provided by publisher. 20211230. Short stories, American. Canadian fiction 21st century. American fiction 21st century. Short stories. Ward, Jesmyn, writer of introduction. Pitlor, Heidi, editor.