“Whether the collection’s short story characters face structural or interpersonal violence, neglect, or the inevitability of death, they are transformed into or out of liminal space… These authors make variable lives understandable to those who do not live them.”—Lesly-Marie Buer, Good River Review
In the Between
21st Century Short Stories
Edited, with a introduction by Brice Particelli
Collected here are seventeen prose stories and two comics created by established and rising stars in American fiction and graphic narrative, all published since the year 2000—masterful works that vary greatly in style and content but spring from a common source: the desire to forge a future in today’s divided America. They speak to our changing society, presenting characters from differing and often mixed cultural and racial backgrounds, genders, sexuality, and ableness. Bold and sometimes unsettling, these intimate stories have the power to open our eyes and our hearts. They urge us to embrace a complex understanding of who we are as a nation and who we can be as individuals.
The authors are: Vanessa Hua, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Bryan Washington, Roxane Gay, Alice Hoffman, Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Akhil Sharma, Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Mister Loki, Rion Amilcar Scott, Maria Anderson, Phil Klay, Joy Baglio, Robert Anthony Siegel, Ryka Aoki, Bryan Hurt, Shivana Sookdeo, Casey Robb, and Nancy Fulda.
Brice Particelli, the editor, teaches writing at the University of California, Berkeley, and has been named a 2022 Creative Writing Fellow in Literature by the National Endowment for the Arts. He is co-editor (with Anne Mazer) of the multicultural anthology of short stories, America Street, and is currently working on his first book.
Paperback / $18.95 (Can $24.95) / ISBN 978-0-89255-546-8 / 216 pages / Anthology