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10 best books like The Hypothetical Girl (Elizabeth Cohen): The Miniature Wife and Other Stories, Bobcat and Other Stories, Welcome Thieves: Stories, Fools, The Last Chicken in America: A Novel in Stories, Inside Madeleine, Why We Never Talk About Sugar, Flings, Starting Over, Personal Statement

The Miniature Wife and Other Stories
AuthorManuel Gonzales
ISBN1594486042
In the tradition of George Saunders and Aimee Bender, an exuberantly imagined debut that chronicles an ordinary world marked by unusual phenomena.

The eighteen stories of Manuel Gonzales’s exhilarating first book render the fantastic commonplace and the ordinary extraordinary, in...
Bobcat and Other Stories
AuthorRebecca Lee
ISBN1616201738
Rebecca Lee, one of our most gifted and original short story writers, guides readers into a range of landscapes, both foreign and domestic, crafting stories as rich as novels. A student plagiarizes a paper and holds fast to her alibi until she finds herself complicit in the resurrection of one professor's...
Welcome Thieves: Stories
AuthorSean Beaudoin
ISBN1616204575
Black humor mixed with pathos is the hallmark of the twelve stories in this adult debut collection from a master writer of comic and inventive YA novels.

A young man spends a whole day lying naked on the floor of his apartment, conversing casually with his roommates, pondering the past, considering...
Fools
AuthorJoan Silber
"Emotionally, it’s astounding. 'Linked' doesn’t begin to describe the complex web Silber has woven…Beautiful, intricate and wise."—New York Times Book Review

When is it wise to be a fool for something? What makes people want to be better than they are? From New York to India to Paris,...
The Last Chicken in America: A Novel in Stories
AuthorEllen Litman
ISBN0393065111
Big Thanks to Dov Zeller for turning me on to author Ellen Litman.

I enjoyed Litman’s sassy, stylistic, scintillating prose. She adds freshness to the term comic-tragedy. I thought the stories were mostly hilarious and truthful.
I saw a few very negative 1-star reviews and I couldn’t...
Inside Madeleine
AuthorPaula Bomer
ISBN1616953098
From the author of Nine Months and Baby comes a daring new collection that seethes with alienation, lust and rage. Bomer takes us from hospitals, halfway houses, and alleyways, to boarding schools and Park Avenue penthouses, exploring the complex relationships girls have with their bodies, with...
Why We Never Talk About Sugar
AuthorAubrey Hirsch
ISBN0615741797
Get ready. These are not your mother's bedtime stories. In this mesmerizing debut collection, Aubrey Hirsch will lead you into the darkest recesses of human life, where hope and longing and love and loss look all too much like one another. Each of these sixteen stories may be filled with its own kind of...
Flings
AuthorJustin Taylor
ISBN0062310151
The acclaimed author of Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever and The Gospel of Anarchy makes his hardcover debut with a piercing collection of short fiction that illuminates our struggle to find love, comfort, and identity

In a new suite of powerful and incisive stories, Justin Taylor captures...
Starting Over
AuthorElizabeth Spencer
ISBN0871406810
On the release of her first novel in 1948, Elizabeth Spencer was immediately championed by Robert Penn Warren and Eudora Welty, setting off a remarkable career as one of the great literary voices of the American South. Her career, now spanning seven decades, continues here with nine new stories. In...
Personal Statement
AuthorJason Odell Williams
ISBN0985895675
Getting into college has never been harder. Can't rely on a perfect SAT score or a 5 on your AP Mandarin exam anymore. And field hockey and basketball? Please. The real sport is Volunteering. Change the world—and tell Harvard all about it.

In Emmy Award nominee Jason Odell Williams’ hilarious...
Christmas Pudding and Pigeon Pie
AuthorNancy Mitford
Christmas Pudding and Pigeon Pie are two comic novels from early in the career of Nancy Mitford, author of The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate, here published in one volume with a new introduction by Jane Smiley.

In Christmas Pudding, an array of colorful characters converge on...
This Close
AuthorJessica Francis Kane
ISBN1555976360
A graceful, moving new collection by the author of The Report

How close can we come to love, success, happiness, forgiveness?

An older woman, irritated with her wealthy young neighbor’s yard “improvements,” offers a corner of her lawn to a Croatian immigrant who wants a vegetable...
Spectacle: Stories
AuthorSusan Steinberg
In these innovative linked stories, women confront loss and grief as they sift through the wreckage of their lives. In the title story, a woman struggles with the death of her friend in a plane crash. A daughter decides whether to take her father off life support in the Pushcart Prize-winning "Cowboys."...
The Isle of Youth: Stories
AuthorLaura van den Berg
ISBN0374177236
Laura van den Berg's gorgeous new book, The Isle of Youth, explores the lives of women mired in secrecy and deception. From a newlywed caught in an inscrutable marriage, to private eyes working a baffling case in South Florida, to a teenager who assists her magician mother and steals from the audience,...
Little Blue Lies
AuthorChris Lynch
ISBN1442440082
Two teens discover the true danger of love in this gripping novel from Printz Honor–winning author Chris Lynch.

Oliver loves Junie Blue. That’s true. Pretty much everything else is a lie. Both known for their deceit, Junie and O’s relationship was the only honest thing they had. But...
Island Fog
AuthorJohn Vanderslice
ISBN1935084410
Island Fog is a collection of linked short fictions by veteran storyteller John Vanderslice. The eleven stories of Island Fog are connected by both geography and theme. Every story is set on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, and together they span a period of Nantucket history from 1795 to 2005, with...
Why They Run the Way They Do
AuthorSusan Perabo
ISBN1476761434
“Darkly beautiful stories about love and loss and every gradation between. Each one is suffused with astonishing wit and tenderness. Well worth the wait!” —Jenny Offill, New York Times bestselling author of Department of Speculation

“Reminiscent of George Saunders…These...
Don't Kiss Me: Stories
AuthorLindsay Hunter
ISBN0374533857
An explosive story collection from a bold, blistering new voice
With broken language, deep vernacular, unexpectedly fierce empathy, and a pace that’ll break your granny’s neck, Lindsay Hunter lures, cajoles, and wrenches readers into the wild world of Don’t Kiss Me.

Here you’ll...
Beside Myself
AuthorAshley Farmer
ISBN9780983562
A girl drinks river water that gives her good advice but a bad reputation. A young woman’s job at a make-up counter ends in disaster. Car accidents and cornfields cause siblings to disappear while, up above, airplane banners advertise hair care products. Welcome to Beside Myself, Ashley Farmer's...
Elegy Owed
AuthorBob Hicok
ISBN1556594364
National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

“[Elegy Owed is a] fluid, absorbing new collection... Hicok gives readers unexpected conjunctions and oddly offbeat thoughts, most darkly whimsical, and has us embrace them wholeheartedly. If he can survive the scary carnival that is this...
Karate Chop
AuthorDorthe Nors
ISBN1555976654
Karate Chop, Dorthe Nors's acclaimed story collection, is the debut book in the collaboration between Graywolf Press and A Public Space. These fifteen compact stories are meticulously observed glimpses of everyday life that expose the ominous lurking under the ordinary. While his wife sleeps,...
Quiet Americans
AuthorErika Dreifus
ISBN0982708424
A high-ranking Nazi's wife and a Jewish doctor in prewar Berlin. A Jewish immigrant soldier and the German POWs he is assigned to supervise. A refugee returning to Europe for the first time and the massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics. A son of survivors and technology's potential...
Remember How I Told You I Loved You?
AuthorGillian Linden
ISBN1477807624
From a brilliant new literary voice, a collection of stories that follow a young woman from college into her early thirties—from delayed adolescence to (delayed) adulthood. Through college, careers, love affairs, and marriages, Linden’s characters try to sort out what separates the passing...
Adultery and Other Choices
AuthorAndre Dubus
ISBN0879232846
This second book of short stories by Andre Dubus established him as a master of the genre in the lineage of Hemingway and Chekhov, even as its gritty truths and spiritual attentiveness served to set his voice apart. The opening stories focus on the fragile nature of youth, exemplified in struggles with...
Other People We Married
AuthorEmma Straub
ISBN0982939213
In this vibrant debut collection, Emma Straub creates characters as recognizable as a best friend, and follows them through moments of triumph and transformation with hilarity, vulnerability, and quietly dazzling insight.

In Some People Must Really Fall In Love, an assistant professor...
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