num_pages: 352
description: Best-selling award-winning pop culture powerhouse Roxane Gay guest edits this years Best American Short Stories  the premier annual showcase for the countrys finest short fiction.I am looking for the artful way any given story is conveyed writes Roxane Gay in her introduction to The Best American Short Stories 2018  but I also love when a story has a powerful message when a story teaches me something about the world. The artful profound and sometimes funny stories Gay chose for the collection transport readers from a fraught family reunion to an immigration detention center from a psychiatric hospital to a coed class sleepover in a natural history museum. We meet a rebellious summer camper a Twitter addict and an Appalachian preacherall characters and circumstances that show us what we need to know about the lives of others.
language: English
title: The Best American Short Stories 2018
publisher: Mariner Books