The Toughest Indian in the World
by Sherman Alexie | 
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
by Stephen King | 
Birds of America
by Lorrie Moore | 
Strange Pilgrims
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez | 
Exercises in Style
by Raymond Queneau | 
Goodbye, Columbus
by Philip Roth |
In Search of Satisfaction
by J. California Cooper | 
A Manual for Cleaning Women
by Lucia Berlin |
Anything Is Possible
by Elizabeth Strout | 
A Piece of Mine
by J. California Cooper |
The Matter Is Life
by J. California Cooper | 
The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel
by Amy Hempel |
Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime
by J. California Cooper | 
Some Soul To Keep
by J. California Cooper | 
I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down
by William Gay | 
Thirteen Ways of Looking
by Colum McCann |
The Complete Stories
by Zora Neale Hurston | 
Something Rich and Strange
by Ron Rash | 
How to Breathe Underwater
by Julie Orringer | 
The Best of Ruskin Bond
by Ruskin Bond |
On the verge of giving up--anchored to dreams that never came true and to people who have long since disappeared from their lives--Van Booy's characters walk the streets of these stark and beautiful stories until chance meetings with strangers force them to face responsibility for lives they thought had continued on without them.