Books like Blind date by Lydia Davis

A collection of short stories by George Saunders, featuring unforgettable characters and Saunders’s signature blend of exuberant prose, deep humanity, and stylistic innovation.

Raymond Carver’s second short‑story collection, ‘What We Talk about When We Talk about Love’, showcases everyday American lives with plain, powerful prose and a focus on ordinary, unheard voices.

A collection of Lucia Berlin’s sharply observed short stories that reveal the hidden strengths of everyday women across the United States and Mexico, blending humor, melancholy and real human moments.

When Kim agrees to a blind date arranged by her neighbor Beth, she meets Ted—a friend of her brothers—and discovers that the night could change her whole life.

"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.

Annie McKinnon, isolated in the Australian Outback, learns that love could be just a click away. When an online romance sparks hope, she asks her agony aunt for advice on whether to follow her heart and venture into the city.