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A collection of nine short stories by Jhumpa Lahiri that follows Indian and Indian‑American characters navigating identity, displacement, and complex relationships.

A chilling anthology of Argentine short stories that delves into the city’s hidden anxieties, revealing how everyday desires and suppressed memories interweave with horror and the uncanny.

A Korean-American private investigator in New York wrestles with identity and suspicion as he navigates legal gray zones, surveillance, and domestic loyalty while confronting his dual heritage.

A collection of ten short stories that illuminate the daily struggles and powerful aspirations of ordinary Haitians under Duvalier’s regime.

A new collection of Alice Munro’s short fiction, featuring twenty‑five stories set in southwestern Ontario that explore ordinary lives with precision and compassion.

A debut collection of short stories that portrays the Iraq War from an Iraqi viewpoint, blending stark realism with surreal elements and dark humor.

A collection of eight darkly humorous, linked short stories that trace the journey from girlhood to womanhood, reflecting on social customs in America from the late 1970s to today.

Hilary Mantel’s sharp, darkly humorous short‑story collection delves into modern England, tackling gender, class, family, and society with penetrating insight and unexpected twists.

A collection of literary and psychological short stories by the praised young author Laura Van den Berg, featuring young women and acclaimed by the New York Times.

"Irreverently juggling magical realism, film noir, hip hop, and chicanismo, Karen Yamashita presents an L.A. where the homeless, gangsters, infant organ entrepreneurs, and Hollywood collide on a stretch of highway struck by disaster. The Harbor Freeway crisis becomes the apex of events - caused by an orange, which has been brought to L.A. from just north of Mazatlan, dragging with it the Tropic of Cancer." "Rafaela, caretaking Gabriel's getaway home in Mexico, discovers a dealer of human body parts and flees north, joining a performer/laborer named Arcangel. Meanwhile, Gabriel, a news reporter in L.A., has been following leads in which seemingly unrelated events mysteriously unite as the homeless take up residence in abandoned Mercedes, lowriders, and Cads, and an aged Asian American sansei conducts symphonies from a freeway overpass." "Emi, T.V. executive and Gabriel's girlfriend, along with Buzzworm, his connection to the streets, get caught in the middle of this mounting wildfire just as the cast of characters - diverse as the city itself - assembles for the final event. Tropic of Orange is an apocalypse of race, class, and culture, fanned by the media under the harsh L.A. sun."--BOOK JACKET.

A collection of six masterfully written short stories by Pulitzer‑winning author Adam Johnson that explores love, loss, technology, and politics through surreal, darkly comic, and heartbreaking lenses.