COLLECTION FIVE: SHORT FICTION
Now for another delve into fiction. This time around, we’re focusing on collections of short stories that offer brief glimpses into divergent worlds. The best short stories are perfectly formed, exquisitely crafted literary miniatures. The following three books are ideal examples of the scope of short fiction, ranging from supernatural powers to contemporary issues, all written by authors at the top of their game.
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Your Duck is My Duck by Deborah Eisenberg
A collection of brilliantly observed stories, skewering the lives we live now, from one of the most admired American practitioners of the form
Property by Lionel Shriver
A striking collection of ten short stories and two novellas that dissects the modern obsession with property, in every meaning of the word, with insight and humor
Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
A piercingly raw debut story collection from a young writer with an explosive voice; a treacherously surreal, and, at times, heartbreakingly satirical look at what it’s like to be young and black in America