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In the Between : 21st Century Short Stories by Dave Eggers (2022, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherPersea Books, Incorporated

ISBN-100892555467

ISBN-139780892555468

eBay Product ID (ePID)20057247867

Product Key Features

Book TitleIn the between : 21st Century Short Stories

Number of Pages240 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicAnthologies (Multiple Authors), American / General, Coming of Age

Publication Year2022

GenreFiction, Literary Collections

AuthorDave Eggers

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight10.8 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2021-044011

Table Of ContentForeword Introduction by Brice Particelli Accepted - VANESSA HUA The Thing Around Your Neck - CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE The Right Imaginary Person - ROBERT ANTHONY SIEGEL Navigation - BRYAN WASHINGTON Juba - RION AMILCAR SCOTT Sugar Babies - KALI FAJARDO-ANSTINE To the New World - RYKA AOKI Cougar - MARIA ANDERSON After Action Report - PHIL KLAY Windows - SHIVANA SOOKDEO Girls at the Bar - ROXANE GAY Ron - JOY BAGLIO A Place Like Home - MISTER LOKI The Devil's Grip - CASEY ROBB In the Trees - ALICE HOFFMAN Surrounded by Sleep - AKHIL SHARMA The Art of Translation - BENJAMIN ALIRE SÁENZ Movement - NANCY FULDA Moonless - BRYAN HURT About the Authors About the Editor Acknowledgments

SynopsisIncluding contributions by Roxane Gay, Alice Hoffman, Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Shivana Sookdeo, and Bryan Washington. In the Between presents characters of differing and mixed cultural backgrounds, genders, sexuality, and ableness, some affected by urban gentrification or the decline of their rural town--all striving to forge a future in today's divided America. Masterful and boldly intimate, these stories urge us to embrace a complex understanding of who we are as a nation and who we can be as individuals. Other contributors are Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Maria Anderson, Ryka Aoki, Joy Baglio, Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Nancy Fulda, Vanessa Hua, Bryan Hurt, Phil Klay, Mister Loki, Casey Robb, Rion Amilcar Scott, Akhil Sharma, and Robert Anthony Siegel. To meet her immigrant parents' expectations, a daughter fakes her way into a top university and finds the only way out is through revenge. A strait-laced Black man, an accountant who is repeatedly mistaken for a drug dealer, decides to track down and get to know his double. A trans woman considers her new femininity in relation to her activist lesbian friend and her grandmother, who fled from her homeland in war-torn Vietnam. An American soldier in Fallujah suffers from PTSD after he covers for his buddy who shoots an Iraqi boy. A girl anguishes over choosing to have an abortion amidst questions of environmental destruction. After a father disappears into the forest, will his grown son live in their dilapidated trailer and wash dishes in a restaurant forever or will he leave their shrinking logging town?, 17 stories and 2 comics by established and rising stars in American fiction and graphic narrative Including contributions by Roxane Gay, Alice Hoffman, Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Shivana Sookdeo, and Bryan Washington. In the Between presents characters of differing and mixed cultural backgrounds, genders, sexuality, and ableness, some affected by urban gentrification or the decline of their rural town--all striving to forge a future in today's divided America. Masterful and boldly intimate, these stories urge us to embrace a complex understanding of who we are as a nation and who we can be as individuals. Other contributors are Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Maria Anderson, Ryka Aoki, Joy Baglio, Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Nancy Fulda, Vanessa Hua, Bryan Hurt, Phil Klay, Mister Loki, Casey Robb, Rion Amilcar Scott, Akhil Sharma, and Robert Anthony Siegel. To meet her immigrant parents' expectations, a daughter fakes her way into a top university and finds the only way out is through revenge. A strait-laced Black man, an accountant who is repeatedly mistaken for a drug dealer, decides to track down and get to know his double. A trans woman considers her new femininity in relation to her activist lesbian friend and her grandmother, who fled from her homeland in war-torn Vietnam. An American soldier in Fallujah suffers from PTSD after he covers for his buddy who shoots an Iraqi boy. A girl anguishes over choosing to have an abortion amidst questions of environmental destruction. After a father disappears into the forest, will his grown son live in their dilapidated trailer and wash dishes in a restaurant forever or will he leave their shrinking logging town?, Nineteen short stories, including graphic shorts, written by established and rising stars in American fiction, all published since 2000 and featuring protagonists who are navigating cultural and personal identities--gender, sexuality, disability, citizenship--perhaps also while being treated as "other." An uncensored portrait of the New World in the early twenty-first century., In the Between collects seventeen prose short stories and two graphic stories written by a diversity of established and new American authors, all published since 2000. The stories feature protagonists entering adulthood who are navigating shifting cultural and personal identities as they enter college, go to work, serve in the military, emigrate to a new country, try to fall in love and/or find a sexual partner, perhaps all while struggling with being treated as "other." These stories don't shy away from difficulty or controversy. They address questions of gender, sexuality, disability, citizenship, experiences involving violence, and rural and urban topics related to the nation's post-industrial life. To meet her parents' expectations, a daughter of immigrants, fakes her way into a top university and finds the only way out is revenge. An aspiring accountant, a Black man who has never smoked a joint but is repeatedly mistaken for a drug dealer, decides to track down and get to know his double. A young trans-woman considers her femininity in relation to her lesbian friend and her grandmother, who fled for her life in a rusty, leaking boat, from Vietnam to freedom in America. In Fallujah, an American soldier suffers from PTSD after he covers for his buddy's impulsive killing of an Iraqi boy. The authors are: Vanessa Hua, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Bryan Washington, Roxane Gay, Alice Hoffman, Benjamin Alire-Sáenz, Akhil Sharma, Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Mister Loki, Rion Amilcar Scott, Maria Anderson, Phil Klay, Joy Baglio, Robert Anthony Siegel, Ryka Aoki, Bryan Hurt, Shivana Sookdeo, Casey Robb, and Nancy Fulda.

LC Classification NumberPS648.S5I53 2021