“Girls with the Sun in Their Eyes”
Vivian Faith Prescott
“The cold water jabbed Suvi’s skin like a thousand sea urchin pricks.”
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Like a Dog
Tara Jepsen
“We’re in Oscar’s car, which is an old Chevy Cavalier. Greyish blue. There is dog hair everywhere. I sit in the back and stare out the window, watching lights fly by and then just deep, country darkness.”
A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness
Jai Chakrabarti
“From his balcony Nikhil waited and watched the street as hyacinth braiders tied floral knots, rum sellers hauled bags of ice, and the row of elderly typists, who’d seemed elderly to him since he’d been a boy, struck the last notes of their daily work.”
I’ll Be Your Fever
Panio Gianopoulos
“Ted had been an involved father from the moment of Stella’s birth. He was one of the new generation of men who regularly feed, dress, and bathe their babies”
A Dream Between Two Rivers
KL Pereira
“I first saw her where the two rivers meet, brown and black, pressing their long, watery bodies together over mud and sand.”
Gangster Nation
Tod Goldberg
“Now Naomi and Michael were exchanging a series of vows that David was pretty sure were cribbed from a pop song.”
The Ninth Hour
Alice McDermott
“Mr. Costello was a quiet, balding man with a ready grin. Polite and hush-voiced when he spoke to the Sisters, but loud and full of good humor when he called to people on the street.”
The Best Kind of People
Zoe Whittall
“Joan was drying the last dinner plate, about to go wrap Sadie’s birthday presents, but her husband George took the dishtowel from her hand and replaced it with a glass of red wine.”
Learning What Love Means
Mathieu Lindon (trans. by Bruce Benderson)
“Do you feel something?” says Gérard.
“Elmore Leonard”
Ben Loory
“Elmore Leonard was a famous writer, but this isn’t a story about him. This is a story about my friend Elmore Leonard, who wasn’t a famous writer at all. Oh, he was a writer, my friend Elmore Leonard; he just wasn’t a famous one.”
Swallowing Mercury
Wioletta Greg (Trans. Eliza Marciniak)
“That spring, my father got hold of an excavator and widened the pond behind our house.”
The Designee
T.C. Boyle
“What he couldn’t have imagined, even in his bleakest assessments of the future, was the boredom.”
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Jesmyn Ward
“Sometimes I think I understand everything else more than I’ll ever understand Leonie.”
Worlds from the Word’s End
Joanna Walsh
“It’s the old story: It’s not you, it’s me. Or, rather, it’s the place we’re at.”
Dinner at the Center of the Earth
Nathan Englander
“It’s never about you. Neither attack, nor counterattack. Not the three boys kidnapped, surely dead, or the child murdered in the forest, burned alive.”
Black Jesus
Venita Blackburn
“After school I arrived at home, took off my shoes at the door, kissed the 8x10 photo of black Jesus in the hall, ate Froot Loops over the sink so Nana wouldn’t scream if I spilled milk on the carpet, and then watched tv.”
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