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  • Your Duck Is My Duck
    Your Duck Is My Duck: Stories
    Deborah Eisenberg
    Hardcover: 09/25/2018
     
    A much-anticipated collection of brilliantly observant short stories from one of the great American masters of...
  • What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky
    What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky: Stories
    Lesley Nneka Arimah
    Paperback: 04/03/2018
     
    A dazzlingly accomplished debut collection explores the ties that bind parents and children, husbands and ...
  • Foreign Soil
    Foreign Soil: And Other Stories
    Maxine Beneba Clarke
    Paperback: 10/17/2017
     
    From a new voice in international fiction, a prize-winning collection of stories that cross the world - Africa...
  • An Unrestored Woman
    An Unrestored Woman
    Shobha Rao
    Paperback: 03/14/2017
     
    The twelve paired stories in Shobha Rao's An Unrestored Woman trace their origins to the formation of India ...
  • The Love Object
    The Love Object: Selected Stories
    Edna O'Brien
    Paperback: 02/07/2017
     
    Collected here for the first time are stories spanning five decades of writing by the "short story master." (...
  • Barbara the Slut and Other People
    Barbara the Slut and Other People
    Lauren Holmes
    Paperback: 08/02/2016
     
    A fresh, honest, and darkly funny debut collection about family, friends, and lovers, and the flaws that make ...
  • Dog Run Moon
    Dog Run Moon: Stories
    Callan Wink
    Hardcover: 02/09/2016
     
    In the tradition of Richard Ford, Annie Proulx, and Kent Haruf comes a dazzling debut story collection by a ...

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