This anthology of short stories marks the fifteenth anniversary of The Story Prize and includes one story from each of the annual winning collections, beginning with Edwidge Danticat's The Dew Breaker and concluding with Elizabeth Strout's Anything...
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This anthology of short stories marks the fifteenth anniversary of The Story Prize and includes one story from each of the annual winning collections, beginning with Edwidge Danticat's The Dew Breaker and concluding with Elizabeth Strout's Anything Is Possible. Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Edwidge Danticat -- "The Book of Miracles": from The Dew Breaker -- Patrick O'Keeffe -- "The Postman's Cottage": from The Hill Road -- Mary Gordon -- "My Podiatrist Tells Me a Story About a Boy and a Dog": from The Stories of Mary Gordon -- Jim Shepard -- "The Zero Meter Diving Team": from Like You'd Understand, Anyway -- Tobias Wolff -- "Bullet in the Brain": from Our Story Begins -- Daniyal Mueenuddin -- "Saleema": from In Other Rooms, Other Wonders -- Anthony Doerr -- "Memory Wall": from Memory Wall -- Steven Millhauser -- "Snowmen": from In the Penny Arcade -- Claire Vaye Watkins -- "Ghosts, Cowboys": from Battleborn -- George Saunders -- "Tenth of December": from Tenth of December -- Elizabeth McCracken -- "Something Amazing": from Thunderstruck & Other Stories -- Adam Johnson -- "Nirvana": from Fortune Smiles -- Rick Bass -- "How She Remembers It": from For a Little While -- Elizabeth Strout -- "The Sign": from Anything Is Possible -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- About The Story Prize -- Winners, Finalists, and Judges of The Story Prize (2004-2018) -- List of Permissions.