{"product_id":"the-best-american-short-stories-2021-paperback","title":"The Best American Short Stories 2021 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJesmyn Ward\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eHeidi Pitlor\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA collection of the year's best stories selected by celebrated two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Best American Short Stories 2021 includes \u003cbr\u003e GABRIEL BUMP - BRANDON HOBSON - DAVID MEANS- JANE PEK - TRACEY ROSE PEYTON - GEORGE SAUNDERS - BRYAN WASHINGTON - KEVIN WILSON - C PAM ZHANG and others\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJESMYN WARD received her MFA from the University of Michigan and is currently a professor of creative writing at Tulane University. She is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eWhere the Line Bleeds \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSalvage the Bones, \u003c\/i\u003e which won the 2011 National Book Award, and \u003ci\u003eSing, Unburied, Sing, \u003c\/i\u003e which won the 2017 National Book Award. She is also the editor of the anthology \u003ci\u003eThe Fire This Time\u003c\/i\u003e and the author of the memoir \u003ci\u003eMen We Reaped, \u003c\/i\u003e which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. From 2008 to 2010, Ward had a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. She was the John and Renée Grisham Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi for the 2010-2011 academic year. In 2016, the American Academy of Arts and Letters selected Ward for the Strauss Living Award. She lives in Mississippi. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e HEIDI PITLOR is a former senior editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and has been the series editor for \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e since 2007. She is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eThe Birthdays \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Daylight Marriage.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.87 x 8.19 x 5.43 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 12, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44317458628710,"sku":"9781328485397","price":24.67,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/Qk1jY2UzSjN5aFdjZ2pENEtRWlNPZz09.webp?v=1768042245","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/the-best-american-short-stories-2021-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}