PEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2017 by Kelly Link

Author:Kelly Link
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction Anthology
Publisher: Catapult
Published: 2017-07-11T04:00:00+00:00

Editor’s note

Amber Caron’s “The Handler” stood out to our editors for many reasons, among them its bounty of wonderful sensory details, its assuredness of voice, its deft pacing, and the power with which it expresses human resiliency. The surging sense of well-being that a person feels in achieving freedom from need animates the story’s climax. The breakthrough does not arrive in a drumroll epiphany but sneaks up quietly as it does in life, amid simple, quotidian routine. When this moment of grace appears, the trembling leaves of the aspen trees sound like “polite applause,” but the protagonist—politeness be damned—feels the sudden urge to howl for joy.

Greg Brownderville, editor in chief

Southwest Review

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