{"product_id":"the-best-american-short-stories-2013-9780547554822","title":"The Best American Short Stories 2013","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Best American Short Stories 2013\u003c\/strong\u003e by Strout, Elizabeth. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780547554822.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026amp;;As our vision becomes more global, our storytelling is stretching in many ways. Stories increasingly change point of view, switch location, and sometimes pack as much material as a short novel might,\u0026amp;; writes guest editor Elizabeth Strout. \u0026amp;;It\u0026amp;;s the variety of voices that most indicates the increasing confluence of cultures involved in making us who we are.\u0026amp;; The Best American Short Stories 2013 presents an impressive diversity of writers who dexterously lead us into their corners of the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u0026amp;;Miss Lora,\u0026amp;; Junot Díaz masterfully puts us in the mind of a teenage boy who throws aside his better sense and pursues an intimate affair with a high school teacher. Sheila Kohler tackles innocence and abuse as a child wanders away from her mother, in thrall to a stranger she believes is the \u0026amp;;Magic Man.\u0026amp;; Kirstin Valdez Quade\u0026amp;;s \u0026amp;;Nemecia\u0026amp;; depicts the after-effects of a secret, violent family trauma. Joan Wickersham\u0026amp;;s \u0026amp;;The Tunnel\u0026amp;; is a tragic love story about a mother\u0026amp;;s declining health and her daughter\u0026amp;;s helplessness as she struggles to balance her responsibility to her mother and her own desires. New author Callan Wink\u0026amp;;s \u0026amp;;Breatharians\u0026amp;; unsettles the reader as a farm boy shoulders a grim chore in the wake of his parents\u0026amp;; estrangement. \u0026amp;;Elizabeth Strout was a wonderful reader, an author who knows well that the sound of one\u0026amp;;s writing is just as important as and indivisible from the content,\u0026amp;; writes series editor Heidi Pitlor. \u0026amp;;Here are twenty compellingly told, powerfully felt stories about urgent matters with profound consequences.\u0026amp;;\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44956823814197,"sku":"ByrdShop_0547554826","price":42.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780547554822_99e4df8a-ff45-4715-a598-c755b8ae5a43.jpg?v=1792875997","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-best-american-short-stories-2013-9780547554822","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}