Discoveries: Fifty Stories of the Quest
by Harold Schechter, Jonna Gormely Semeiks
Category: Fiction

The second edition of this short story reader includes new stories by writers from diverse cultural backgrounds, including Amy Tan, Bharati Mukherjee, and B. K. Narayan, and representing a new generation of writers, such as Stephen Milhauser, Ellen Gilchrist, and Patrick McGrath. The anthology is organized around the quest pattern delineated by Joseph Campbell.