 | A Stranger in This World: Stories by Kevin Canty
Buy new: $15.00 / Used from: $0.40 Like watching a car accident happen in slow motion. Beautifully crafted, but nerve-wracking and upsetting. A real page-turner.
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 | The Hotel Eden by Ron Carlson
Buy used from: $5.22 "Oxygen" is an incredibly disturbing coming-of-age story. A "must read."
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 | Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Buy new: $9.72 / Used from: $0.01 Incredibly moving, beautifully crafted, and original. This is one of the best collections I have ever read.
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 | The Shoplifter's Apprentice by Ellen Lesser
Buy used from: $0.01 Mostly about young women in NYC who encounter the varying strangeness of life in the big city. Probing and insightful.
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 | A Scrap of Time and Other Stories (Jewish Lives) by Ida Fink
Buy new: $16.00 / Used from: $1.98 Miniatures about life in Poland before, during, and after WWII. As a whole, you are hit by the perfidious zeitgeist of that time and place. Haunting.
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 | The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
Buy used from: $0.18 A master story-teller. The banality of evil lurks and the lives of the eternally lonely haunt every page.
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 | Shiloh And Other Stories by Bobbie Ann Mason
Buy new: $23.37 / Used from: $1.43 The Southerners in these stories search for more meaning in their seemingly simple, yet deeply troubled, lives. Beautiful prose.
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| Three Thousand Dollars by David Lipsky
Buy used from: $0.32 The story "Relativity" undermines the groves of academe and exposes the hypocrisy of higher education. A wonderful debut.
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 | Emperor of the Air by Ethan Canin
Buy new: $11.90 / Used from: $0.61 Finely crafted stories about families in conflict and characters which stay with you long after you've closed the book.
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 | The Middleman and Other Stories by Bharati Mukherjee
Buy new: $9.23 / Used from: $1.55 The foreign transplants in these stories struggle to redfine themselves within the cultural conflicts that now determine their new places in society. Beautiful emotional detail.
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 | Wilderness Tips by Margaret Atwood
Buy new: $11.05 / Used from: $3.25 Atwood certainly makes you look at the world differently. Her prose makes the mundane seem like freakish science experiments. A terrific collection.
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 | Midair: Stories (Contemporary American Fiction) by Frank Conroy
Buy used from: $0.01 Mostly about men approaching middle age and the internal conflicts brought about by aging, memory, and the wages of time. Gripping.
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 | Gates of Eden by Ethan Coen
Buy used from: $0.01 Sometimes funny, sometimes silly, sometimes touching. Read for the great "The Boys" about a father who doesn't understand his role or his 2 little boys.
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 | Bad Behavior by Mary Gaitskill
Buy used from: $2.00 Like the title suggests, strange stories about odd people doing bizarre things. Jacksonesque in detail and emotional flatness. Unsettling.
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