The best short stories 2021 : the O. Henry prize winners /
guest editor: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; series editor: Jenny Minton Quigley.
- xviii, 375 pages ; 21 cm.
Brown girls / Two nurses, smoking / Malliga homes / Endangered species: case 47401 / From far around they saw us burn / Things we worried about when I was ten / Scissors / Witness / The other one / Becoming the baby girl / The master's castle / The living sea / Freedom from want / Fisherman's stew / White noise / Delandria / Antediluvian / Grief's garden / To the dogs / Color and light / Daphne Palasi Andreades, Kenyon Review -- David Means, The New Yorker -- Sindya Bhanoo, Granta -- Crystal Wilkinson, Story -- Alice Jolly, Ploushares -- David Rabe, The New Yorker -- Karina Sainz Borgo, translated by Elizabeth Bryer, Granta -- James Brinkley, The Paris Review -- Tessa Hadley, The New Yorker -- Adachioma Ezeano, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern -- Anthony Doerr, The House -- Tiphanie Yanique, Harvard Review -- Joan Silber, The House -- Jowhor Ile, The Sewanee Review -- Emma Cline, The New Yorker -- Asali Solomon, McSweeney's Quarterly Review -- Ben Hinshaw, Harvard Review -- Caroline Albertine Minor, translated by Caroline Waight, Granta -- Jianan Qian, Granta -- Sally Rooney, The New Yorker.
Twenty prizewinning stories selected from the thousands published in magazines over the previous year?́?continuing the O. Henry Prize's century-long tradition of literary excellence.