Foreword by Jenny Minton Quigley, series editor
Introduction by Valeria Luiselli, guest editor
“Screen Time,” by Alejandro Zambra,
translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell
“The Wolves of Circassia,” by Daniel Mason
“Mercedes’s Special Talent,” by Tere Dávila,
translated from the Spanish by Rebecca Hanssens-Reed
“Rainbows,” by Joseph O’Neill
“A Way with Bea,” by Shanteka Sigers
“Seams,” by Olga Tokarczuk,
translated from the Polish by Jennifer Croft
“The Little Widow from the Capital,” by Yohanca Delgado
“Lemonade,” by Eshkol Nevo,
translated from the Hebrew by Sondra Silverston
“Breastmilk,” by ‘Pemi Aguda
“The Old Man of Kusumpur,” by Amar Mitra,
translated from the Bengali by Anish Gupta
“Where They Always Meet,” by Christos Ikonomou,
translated from the Greek by Karen Emmerich
“Fish Stories,” by Janika Oza
“Horse Soup,” by Vladimir Sorokin,
translated from the Russian by Max Lawton
“Clean Teen,” by Francisco González
“Dengue Boy,” by Michel Nieva,
translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer
“Zikora,” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“Apples,” by Gunnhild Øyehaug,
translated from the Norwegian by Kari Dickson
“Warp and Weft,” by David Ryan
“Face Time,” by Lorrie Moore
“An Unlucky Man,” by Samanta Schweblin,
translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell
VALERIA LUISELLI was born in Mexico City and grew up in South
Korea, South Africa, and India. She is the author of two essay
collections and the novels Faces in the Crowd, The Story of My
Teeth, and The Lost Children Archive. The recipient of a MacArthur
"Genius Grant," two Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, an American Book
Award, and the 2021 Dublin Literary Award, she has also been
nominated twice for the National Book Critics Circle Award and
three times for the Kirkus Prize. She is a National Book Foundation
"5 Under 35" honoree and the recipient of a Bearing Witness
Fellowship from the Art for Justice Fund. Her work has been
translated into more than twenty languages.
JENNY MINTON QUIGLEY is the author of a memoir, The Early Birds,
and editor of the anthology Lolita in the Afterlife. She lives in
West Hartford, Connecticut, with her husband, sons, and dogs.
"Widely regarded as the nation's most prestigious awards for short
fiction." —The Atlantic Monthly
“These stories surprise and illuminate.” —Publishers Weekly
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