United States

Asian women who reckon with the past, violence, and exile

Two young Taiwanese American women navigate friendship, sexuality, identity, and heartbreak.

A black family seems to have made it in the white world of the 1960s, or perhaps not.

The vocational and emotional bargains made by workers at a Colorado sausage factory.

A group of friends in rural Alabama are haunted by tragedies that span generations.

Stories that remind us that possible explanations in our universe are as varied as the beings who populate it

Set in a Native community in Maine, this is a collection about what it means to live, to survive, and to persevere after tragedy.

An eleven-story journey through the all-too-human encounters that ensue when East meets West.

Eleven stories about the challenge of creating meaning in the wake of loss.

Stories of soldiers fighting a “forever war,” in combat and back home.