Chris' Top Picks!
Below is a list of some of the linked short story collections I have enjoyed the most!
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A badass queer British-Somali journalist navigates sex, mental health and the gig-economy
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Olive continues to struggle to understand her own life and the lives around her.
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A retired schoolteacher, deplores the changes in her little town, but she doesn’t always recognize the changes in those around her.
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Stories about love and its infinite betrayals.
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A complex, grimly ironic portrait of life in and around the Spoke Indian Reservation.
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Stories from the Vietnam war and in America two decades later.
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Strengths, struggles, and hopes of black women in America.
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Follow Nick Adams as he grows from child to adolescent to soldier, veteran, writer & parent.
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A cycle about George Willard, from the time he was a child to his growing independence and ultimate abandonment of Winesburg.