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These stories are enveloped by change and the changes that shift
the trajectories of our lives: change that shatters us, change that
opens the world, and change from which we can never come back.
These fourteen stories tell us about extensive and inevitable
changes and how we realign ourselves and our lives, if we can.
Growing up can mean growing pains and the joys of new independence.
With maturity comes the shift from infinite possibilities to
imminent realities. These thirteen stories describe the slow and
subtle experience of growing up, allowing us to reflect upon the
forces that pushed us toward adulthood and away from the familiar
ground of youth that must be left behind if we are to learn how to
soar on our own.
These stories offer layered, perceptive takes on what home means to
us. The people we meet in these stories are often traveling to and
from home-thinking about where they have come from, where they are
headed, and how that journey will impact their futures. Although
the stories approach homecoming and homesickness through varied
moods and styles, they all come around to confronting a shared
need: a place to call home.
These stories amount to something more than a celebration of the
holidays dotting our calendars from month to month. Even though
holidays can occasion a return to the familiar, these stories
challenge traditional associations. Each story serves to complicate
how we observe the human observation of holidays and offers a
nuanced understanding of related themes such as family and
motherhood, travel, grief and mourning processes, and memory. More
generally, holidays are days of observance, and that aspect alone
offers a lot to unpack.
Front porches, family cars, playgrounds, swimming pools: from such
familiar haunts of childhood, these stories look out on the world
through young eyes and hearts. Wise beyond their years - or soon to
be - Ruthie, Omar, J.J., and the other kids in these stories veer
in and out of touching distance to hard lessons about trust, love,
and mortality. However engaged or aloof, grownups are always
nearby. Far-from-perfect emissaries to the realm of adulthood, they
pose questions for children even as they offer answers.
Set on the field of play, or maybe just its memory, these stories
of the sporting life range beyond the expected to include such
pursuits as yoga, billiards, horse racing, cards, and boxing. Here,
even iconic sports like football, basketball, and baseball get a
fresh take through stories that might feature a losing coach, a
woman hoopster, or a groundskeeper (rather than a star player).
Whether front-and-center as a story's driving force or as a
backdrop for other concerns, the skill, cunning, and aggression on
display here are familiar to all of us - as players, willing or
not, in all manner of contests.
Work, and the coffee-fueled day-to-day grind, is the shared concern
of these stories, which have been chosen from among the hundreds
that have appeared in the prestigious Flannery O'Connor Award for
Short Fiction series. More than seventy volumes, which include
approximately eight hundred stories, have won the Flannery O'Connor
Award. This stunning trove of always engaging, often groundbreaking
short fiction is the common source for this anthology on work-and
for planned anthologies on such topics as family, gender and
sexuality, animals, and more. Sometimes work is rewarding, and
sometimes it's just demanding. From the cubicle to the courtroom,
from the stage to the station. These fifteen stories reflect upon
the time we dedicate to the jobs we do, from the moment we begin
our commute to the second we return home, and every hardworking
hour in between.
Love, in some of the infinite ways we may know it, is the shared
concern of these stories, which have been chosen from among the
hundreds that have appeared in the prestigious Flannery O'Connor
Award for Short Fiction series. More than seventy volumes, which
include approximately eight hundred stories, have won the Flannery
O'Connor Award. This stunning trove of always engaging, often
groundbreaking short fiction is the common source for this
anthology on love-and for planned anthologies on such topics as
work, family, animals, children, and more. Emerging love, or love
on its way out the door. Love that transcends, or love that just
stubbornly hangs on. These fourteen stories give us at least that
many new ways of looking at a state of mind that can send us either
soaring or plummeting, all in a heartbeat.
Death, that ending of all endings, is the shared concern of these
stories, which have been chosen from among the hundreds that have
appeared in the prestigious Flannery O'Connor Award for Short
Fiction series. More than seventy volumes, which include
approximately eight hundred stories, have won the Flannery O'Connor
Award. This stunning trove of always engaging, often groundbreaking
short fiction is the common source for this anthology on death-and
for planned anthologies on such topics as work, family, animals,
children, and more. Most of the expected ways by which we take our
leave are covered here: accident, murder, suicide, illness, old
age. Perhaps less expected is how, in these stories, a matter we'd
rather not think about becomes the stuff of fiction so compelling
that we can't stop thinking about it. How can something so final
and certain spread so much ambiguity in its wake? What did we think
of the departed, and what did they think of us? How long will they
be around-in our hearts and heads-even after they're gone? How will
we forgive those who may have caused the death of a loved one?
These fifteen stories give us many new ways of looking not only at
death but at the lives that must go on in its aftermath.
Travel, and the exhilarating experiences it offers us, is the
shared concern of these stories, which have been chosen from among
the hundreds that have appeared in the prestigious Flannery
O'Connor Award for Short Fiction series. More than seventy volumes,
which include approximately eight hundred stories, have won the
Flannery O'Connor Award. This stunning trove of always engaging,
often groundbreaking short fiction is the common source for this
anthology on childhood-and for planned anthologies on such topics
as family, gender and sexuality, animals, and more. Travel can
whisk us away to craggy mountainsides and sunny coastlines or
bustling cities and mysterious jungles. Travel can excite and
rejuvenate or intimidate and overwhelm. These sixteen stories
reflect upon our immense, intriguing world and our explorations of
it, whether you choose to follow the beaten path or abandon it.
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