“1-800-Fat-Girl”
Emily Geminder
“This was the summer they entered phone booths and ran out shrieking. ”
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The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao
Martha Batalha, trans. Eric M.B. Becker
“When he was still very young, Chico thought that all other families were just like his.”
The Iliac Crest
Cristina Rivera Garza, Trans. by Sarah Booker
“Now, after so much time has passed, I am still dwelling on it, incredulous. How is it possible that someone like me had allowed an unknown woman into my house on a stormy night?”
“Gimme Shelter”
Emily Fridlund
“In her adulthood strangers asked, “Where’d you get your accent?” They guessed England, they guessed Sweden, they guessed the South.”
“A Love Letter”
Greg Ames
“Here’s what I know: life is short and life is long. Allow me to explain.”
Abandon
Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay, trans. Arunava Sinha
“And then we proceed to wander around the city in search of shelter. We drift through the morbid yellow afternoon. ”
Petite Fleur
Iosi Havilio, trans. Lorna Scott Fox
“This when I was someone else. Like every day since we moved to the town, that Monday morning I got on my bike and started pedalling.”
Manhattan Beach
Jennifer Egan
“Driving along Eighty-sixth Street in Brooklyn, Dexter Styles saw Badger check his wristwatch and then extend a hairy hand toward the radio dial, presumably to turn on the five-thirty a.m. news.”
“Inventory”
Carmen Maria Machado
“One girl. We lay down next to each other on the musty rug in her basement.”
In the Distance
Hernan Diaz
“Two men escorted Håkan through the empty barroom and led him upstairs to a room adjacent to the woman’s.”
“Zumki’s Snowlion”
Tenzin Tsundue
“Zumki stops her dad in the middle of the bustling New York street and insists that he tells her the snow lion story again. ”
“Girls with the Sun in Their Eyes”
Vivian Faith Prescott
“The cold water jabbed Suvi’s skin like a thousand sea urchin pricks.”
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.
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