Seattle Picks: Short Stories
Recently published single-author short story collections and multi-author anthologies. Annotations from NoveList unless otherwise specified. (Updated August 2024)
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Normal Rules Don't Apply
Startling, funny and imaginative, eleven interconnected stories, in which nothing is what it seems, are sharp observations on human nature and pack an emotional--and satisfying--punch.
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Old Babes in the Wood
The internationally acclaimed, award-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale presents this stunning collection of short stories that showcase both her creativity and her humanity as she explores family relationships, marriage, loss and memory and what it means to spend a life together.
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Coexistence
This set of interconnected stories explores the lives of Indigenous characters—all of whom are tortured in some way by romantic grief or confusion—in a range of settings across Canada. (Kirkus)
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Temple Folk
Ten stories portray the lived experiences of Black Muslims grappling with faith, family and freedom in America, presenting moral failures with compassion, nuance and humor to remind us that it’s the errors that make us human.
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Quickly, While They Still Have Horses
Humorous and horrifying, tender and absurd, the stories in Quickly, While They Still Have Horses offer a fresh, irreverent look at life in post-conflict Northern Ireland. From first loves to strained relationships, the thrills and terrors of growing up to the dangers and challenges of parenthood, Carson infuses all her stories with empathy, dark wit, and a surreal edge.
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Weird Black Girls
With a unique voice and a gift for metaphor, Cotman presents seven stories that blend magic realism and social commentary into a rollicking fever dream of real and imagined Black experiences. (Booklist)
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The Faraway World
From the author of Infinite Country, this collection of ten haunting, award-winning short stories bring to life the liminality of regret, the vibrancy of community and the epic deeds and quiet moments of love.
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The Body Farm
Wounds of all sizes and kinds—physical, emotional, psychological—are present in various stages—open, healing, permanently scarred—in these stunning stories. (Booklist)
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The Goodbye Process
In her stunning debut short story collection, The Goodbye Process, Mary Jones uses her distinctive voice to examine the painful and sometimes surreal ways we say goodbye.
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Every Drop Is A Man's Nightmare
Megan Kamalei Kakimoto's debut story collection follows a cast of mixed native Hawaiian and Japanese women through a contemporary landscape thick with inherited wisdom and the ghosts of colonization.
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