In the Between - 21st Century Short Stories

<p>Including contributions by Roxane Gay, Alice Hoffman, Benjamin Alire Saenz, Shivana Sookdeo, and Bryan Washington. <em>In the Between</em> presents characters of differing and mixed cultural backgrounds, genders, sexuality, and ableness, some affected by urban gentrification or the decline of their rural town-all striving to forge a future in today's divided America. Masterful and boldly intimate, these stories urge us to embrace a complex understanding of who we are as a nation and who we can be as individuals. </p><p>Other contributors are Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Maria Anderson, Ryka Aoki, Joy Baglio, Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Nancy Fulda, Vanessa Hua, Bryan Hurt, Phil Klay, Mister Loki, Casey Robb, Rion Amilcar Scott, Akhil Sharma, and Robert Anthony Siegel.</p><ul><li>To meet her immigrant parents’ expectations, a daughter fakes her way into a top university and finds the only way out is through revenge.</li><li>A strait-laced Black man, an accountant who is repeatedly mistaken for a drug dealer, decides to track down and get to know his double.</li><li>A trans woman considers her new femininity in relation to her activist lesbian friend and her grandmother, who fled from her homeland in war-torn Vietnam.</li><li>An American soldier in Fallujah suffers from PTSD after he covers for his buddy who shoots an Iraqi boy.</li><li>A girl anguishes over choosing to have an abortion amidst questions of environmental destruction.</li><li>After a father disappears into the forest, will his grown son live in their dilapidated trailer and wash dishes in a restaurant forever or will he leave their shrinking logging town?</li></ul>