The best American nonrequired reading. 2019 / edited by Edan Lepucki and the students of 826 National.

Front Cover; Front Matter; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Editors' Note; Introduction; Patricia Sammon: Hill Country; Charles Johnson: Follow the Drinking Gourd; Jane Wong: Curse for the American Dream; Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling: Barbearians at the Gate; Andrea Long Chu: I Worked with Avital Ronell. I Believe Her Accuser.; Holton Arms Class of 1984: To the United States Congress; Kate Gaskin: Diagnosis in Reverse; Viet Thanh Nguyen: On True War Stories; Garth Greenwell: The Frog King; Emily Rinkema: Child A; Ren�ee Branum: As the Sparks Fly Upward; Latifa Ayad: Arabic Lesson

Maddy Raskulinecz: Barbara From FloridaNathaniel Russell: It's Natural (selected comics); Uche Okonkwo: Our Belgian Wife; Robin Coste Lewis: Self-Care; Devin Gordon: The Brothers Aguayo; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; Sylvia Chan: Naked and Vulnerable, the Rest Is Circumstance; Mikko Harvey: Spring; Angela Garbes: The BabyLand Diaries; Britteney Black Rose Kapri: Two Poems; Black Queer Hoe; open letter to the mothers who shield their daughters from looking at me; Keith Donnell Jr: The Gettysburg Address (Sound Translations 1 and 2); The Gettysburg Address (Sound Translation 1)

The Gettysburg Address (Sound Translation 2)Deborah Taffa: Almost Human; Margaret Ross: Macho; David Drury: The Lake and the Onion; Back Matter; Contributors' Notes; The Best American Nonrequired Reading Committee; Notable Nonrequired Reading of 2018; About 826 National; About ScholarMatch; The Best American Series; Back Cover; Spine

An eclectic collection of fiction, essays, poetry, and graphic work selected by high school students with the help of New York Times best-selling author Edan Lepucki.