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Books containing stories by Lori Ostlund
The Best American Short Stories 2024 (2024)
(Best American Short Stories)
edited by
Lauren Groff and Heidi Pitlor
Down on the Sidewalk (2020)
Stories About Children and Childhood from the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
edited by
Ethan Laughman
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Lori Ostlund recommends
Off the Books (2024)
Soma Mei Sheng Frazier
"In Soma Mei Sheng Frazier's Off the Books, student-turned-limo-driver Mei and her mysterious passenger travel from San Francisco to Syracuse and back, but also around the world and into the dark corners of humanity, as well as into Mei's past and her struggle to make sense of her own identity and the recent death of her father. Along the way, we meet one of my favorite characters in a good long while, Mei's iconoclastic, pot-smoking, funny, and wise grandfather. Soma Mei Sheng Frazier is a masterful storyteller who draws on humor and compassion to show us the world we live in, then asks us not to look away. I could have kept driving cross country with these characters forever."
Endpapers (2023)
Jennifer Savran Kelly
"Jennifer Savran Kelly's Endpapers immerses us in the world and mind of her engaging but struggling narrator Dawn - genderqueer, Jewish, a book conservator on a desperate search for queer role models and an artistic community. Endpapers is about the need to be fully seen - to locate oneself in the past in order to feel visible in the present. Savran Kelly is a masterful and compassionate storyteller, one who finds hope in the antidotes to hate and violence: community, art, authentic self. This is a book for all of us!"
The All-Night Sun (2020)
Diane Zinna
"The All-Night Sun is about loss, guilt, faith, friendship, and, as the title also suggests, the human ability to go on. Zinna offers everything I come to a novel hoping for—a compelling protagonist, graceful prose, first-rate storytelling, and deep compassion for her characters."
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