{"product_id":"best-debut-short-stories-2022-yuka-igarashi-9781646221639","title":"Best Debut Short Stories 2022: The Pen America Dau Prize","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe essential annual guide to the newest voices in short fiction, selected this year by Deesha Philyaw, Emily Nemens, and Sabrina Orah Mark\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis anthology celebrates the most recent winners of the PEN\/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers, which recognizes twelve writers who have made outstanding fiction debuts in literary magazines. This year's selections were made by Sabrina Orah Mark, Emily Nemens, and Deesha Philyaw. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe stories in \u003ci\u003eBest Debut Short Stories 2022 \u003c\/i\u003eexplore the dangers and possibilities of protest in Multan, Pakistan, in 1978; in the well-to-do neighborhoods of Melbourne, Australia, at the end of the millennium; and in the outskirts of Ramallah, Palestine, in the present day. They describe toxic homes and precarious lives and refuge sought in unlikely places: a bowling alley, a work affair, a noisy club, a neoclassical sanatorium, a school-turned-hostel near a flooded brownfield. They feature a pork bun made with a perfect spiral of dough, a bucket of eggs swarmed by crows, a drink made of chilled chicken blood and rose water, and a pale pink worm with five hearts who lives at the edge of the universe. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEach story is accompanied by a letter from the editor who first published it, providing insight about what's new and exciting in fiction today and recognizing the vital work of literary journals in nurturing new voices in literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Yuka Igarashi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 164622163X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781646221639\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Catapult\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/20\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.70d","brand":"Yuka Igarashi","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43945848275199,"sku":"9781646221639","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_7fab317e-ea7f-485c-a126-873cbb696623.jpg?v=1681510106","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/best-debut-short-stories-2022-yuka-igarashi-9781646221639","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}