This is How You Lose Her
by Junot Diaz | 
Gates of Eden
by Ethan Coen | 
The Palace Thief
by Ethan Canin | 
The Melancholy of Anatomy
by Shelley Jackson | 
Small Crimes in an Age of Abundance
by Matthew Kneale | 
To Cut a Long Story Short
by Jeffrey Archer | 
All the days and nights
by William Maxwell | 
Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys
by Will Self | 
Sugar and Other Stories
by A. S. Byatt | 
Circling the Drain
by Amanda Davis | 
Collected Stories
by Vladimir Nabokov | 
The Stories of Richard Bausch
by Richard Bausch | 
Break It Down
by Lydia Davis | 
Women in their beds
by Gina Berriault | 
Demonology
by Rick Moody | 
And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer
by Fredrik Backman | 
Olive, Again
by Elizabeth Strout | 
Too Much Happiness
by Alice Munro | 
Open Secrets
by Alice Munro | 
The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake
by Breece D'J Pancake |
With ten stories that move from the barrios of the Dominican Republic to the struggling urban communities of New Jersey, Junot Diaz makes his remarkable debut. Diaz's work is unflinching and strong, and these stories crackle with an electric sense of discovery. Diaz evokes a world in which fathers are gone, mothers fight with grim determination for their families and themselves, and the next generation inherits the casual cruelty, devastating ambivalence, and knowing humor of lives circumscribed by poverty and uncertainty. In Drown, Diaz has harnessed the rhythms of anger and release, frustration and joy, to indelible effect.