Homesick for Another World
by Ottessa Moshfegh | 
Friday Black
by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah | 
The Hermit's Story
by Rick Bass | 
The Secret Goldfish
by David Means | 
Great Dream of Heaven
by Sam Shepard | 
Collected Stories of Reynolds Price
by Reynolds Price | 
The Fahrenheit Twins
by Michel Faber | 
Family Furnishings
by Alice Munro | 
Blueprints for Building Better Girls
by Elissa Schappell | 
A Permanent Member of the Family
by Russell Banks | 
A Manual for Cleaning Women
by Lucia Berlin | 
The Secrets of a Fire King
by Kim Edwards | 
The UnAmericans
by Molly Antopol | 
The Color Master
by Aimee Bender | 
Thunderstruck and Other Stories
by Elizabeth McCracken |
Through the Safety Net
by Charles Baxter | 
Gryphon
by Charles Baxter | 
The Toughest Indian in the World
by Sherman Alexie | 
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
by Stephen King | 
Birds of America
by Lorrie Moore |
Without question Charles Baxter, whose ravishing novel The Feast of Love was a National Book Award finalist, is one of our finest contemporary writers. These two books, set in the Michigan landscape that Baxter has made his own, display his unparalleled gift for revealing the unexpected in everyday life. The often-curious connections of relatives and strangers are illuminated in the thirteen exquisite stories of A Relative Stranger. "You can't just get a brother off the street," a character says, but indeed he does.