TY - BOOK AU - Strout,Elizabeth AU - Pitlor,Heidi TI - The best American short stories 2013 T2 - The best American series SN - 9780547554822 AV - PS659.2 .B475 U1 - 813/.010806 B554 2013 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Boston PB - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt KW - Short stories, American KW - Short stories, Canadian KW - American fiction KW - 21st century KW - Canadian fiction KW - Short stories KW - American KW - Fiction KW - Canadian KW - fast KW - gsafd KW - lcgft KW - sears N1 - English Language & Literature N2 - From a Nigerian boy's friendship with his family's former houseboy to a sweatshop girl's experience as a sister wife, from love and murder on the frontier to a meltdown in academe, these stories have the economy and power to "break hearts bones vanities and cages." UR - http://books.google.com/books?vid=isbn0544582756 ER -