A Touchstone book

Introduction Rosellen Brown -- Sarah Cole: a type of love story Russell Banks -- The school Donald Barthelme -- The hermit's story Rick Bass -- The fireman's wife Richard Bausch -- The disappeared Charles Baxter -- Silver water Amy Bloom -- Caviar T. C. Boyle -- The ceiling Kevin Brockmeier -- Jealous husband returns in form of parrot Robert Olen Butler -- Never marry a Mexican Sandra Cisneros -- Relief Peter Ho Davies -- After Rosa Parks Janet Desaulniers -- Nilda Junot Di?az -- The caretaker Anthony Doerr -- We didn't Stuart Dybek -- Twilight of the superheroes Deborah Eisenberg -- Communist Richard Ford -- Tiny, smiling Daddy Mary Gaitskill -- Winners on the pass line Dagoberto Gilb -- Wickedness Ron Hansen -- A real doll A. M. Holmes -- How far she went Mary Hood -- Car crash while hitchhiking Denis Johnson -- Marie Edward P. Jones -- The pugilist at rest Thom Jones -- Girl Jamaica Kincaid -- A temporary matter Jhumpa Lahiri -- Territory David Leavitt -- Stone animals Kelly Link -- The kind of light that shines on Texas Reginald McKnight -- The secret goldfish David Means -- Lust Susan Minot -- Boys Rick Moody -- The management of grief Bharati Mukherjee -- Female trouble Antonya Nelson -- The translation Joyce Carol Oates -- The things they carried Tim O'Brien -- Orientation Daniel Orozco -- Pilgrims Julie Orringer -- Brownies ZZ Packer -- The half-skinned steer E. Anne Proulx -- The cavemen in the hedges Stacey Richter -- Sea oak George Saunders -- My shape Joan Silber -- Tony's story Leslie Marmon Silko -- The way we live now Susan Sontag -- Two kinds Amy Tan -- Xmas, Jamaica Plain Melanie Rae Thon -- Nineteen fifty-five Alice Walker -- The rest of her life Steve Yarbrough

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