When you are short on time but still want to read a compelling narrative, short stories may be for you! From musings on life and death to comical tales of love and finding yourself, these short story collections are sure to captivate your attention, if only for a little while.
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A House is a Body by Shruti Swamy
In two-time O. Henry-prize winner Swamy's debut collection of stories, dreams collide with reality, modernity collides with antiquity, myth with true identity, and women grapple with desire, with ego, with motherhood and mortality. |
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The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans Download the audiobook via eZone
In this collection, Evans zooms in on particular moments and relationships in her characters' lives in a way that allows them to speak to larger issues of race, culture, and history. |
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The Best American Short Stories 2020 Edited by Curtis Sittenfeld A striking and nuanced collection, bringing to life awkward college students, disgraced public figures, raunchy grandparents, and mystical godmothers. To read these stories is to experience the transporting joys of discovery and affirmation, and to realize that story writing in America continues to flourish. |
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The Boatman and Other Stories by Billy O'Callaghan Twelve poignant, quietly dazzling, and carefully crafted stories that explore the resiliency of the human heart and its ability to keep beating in the wake of bereavement, violence, lost love, and incomparable trauma and grief. |
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Daddy by Emma Cline Download the audiobook via eZone A collection of stories that consider the dark corners of human experience, exploring the fault lines of power between men and women, parents and children, past and present. |
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Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick by Zora Neale Hurston Download the audiobook via eZone An outstanding collection of stories about love and migration, gender and class, racism and sexism that proudly reflect African American folk culture. |
This list compiled by Reference Staff at Barrington Public Library. Please contact us at 401-247-1920 x2 with any questions or if you would like help placing a hold on one of these titles.
