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Edited by the award-winning, best-selling author Geraldine Brooks, this year’s collection will be another "sure bet for gripping, emotional challenging reading" (San Diego Union-Tribune). With Brooks picking the best of the best, America’s oldest and best-selling story anthology is sure to satisfy this year.
Foreword by Heidi Pitlor
Introduction by Geraldine Brooks
Ceiling
By Chimamandangozi Adichie
from Granta
Housewifely Arts
By Megan Mayhew Bergman
from One Story
A Bridge Under Water
Tom Bissell
from Agni
Out of Body
Jennifer Egan
from Tin House
Free Fruit for Young Widows
Nathan Englander
from The New Yorker
La Vita Nuova
Allegra Goodman
from The New Yorker
Gurov in Manhattan
Ehud Havazelet
from TriQuarterly
The Sleep
Caitlin Horrocks
from The Atlantic Fiction for Kindle
Soldier of Fortune
Bret Anthony Johnston
from Glimmer Train
Foster
Claire Keegan
from The New Yorker
The Dungeon Master
Sam Lipsyte
from The New Yorker
Peter Torrelli, Falling Apart
Rebecca Makkai
from Tin House
Property
Elizabeth McCracken
from Granta
Phantoms
Steven Millhauser
from McSweeney’s
Dog Bites
Ricardo Nuila
from McSweeney’s
ID
Joyce Carol Oates
from The New Yorker
To the Measures Fall
Richard Powers
from The New Yorker
The Call of Blood
Jess Row
from Harvard Review
Escape from Spiderhead
George Saunders
from The New Yorker
The Hare’s Mask
Mark Slouka
from Harper’s Magazine
