"A masterful collection of stories that plumb the depths of everyday life to reveal the shifting tides and hidden undercurrents of ordinary relationships. In each of these twelve stories, small events have huge consequences"--

In this brilliant volume, nothing is quite as it seems. We meet a queen who makes a bargain she cannot keep; a secretary who watches over the life she has just left; a lost man who bets on a horse that may-or may not-have spoken to him. Witty and wise, with subtle connections between the stories, Normal Rules Don't Apply is a startling and funny feast for the imagination, stories with the depth and bite to create their own fully-formed worlds.

Como una extensión de su propia vida, la obra de Horacio Quiroga es desmesurada, turbulenta, inquietante como pocas. En sus relatos siempre reverbera ese pulso enrarecido que, como el insecto misterioso y letal de "El almohadón de pluma", termina carcomiendo todo. Cuentos de amor de locura y de muerte (1917) esconde en el título una de las claves para su lectura. Esa coma elidida es la marca con la que Quiroga sentencia su literatura, en la que...

"Nine mesmerizing stories saturated in the details of Roman life that showcase Jhumpa Lahiri's extraordinary range and virtuosity"--

"Finding seeds of inspiration in the Brothers Grimm, seventeenth-century French lore, and Scottish ballads, Kelly Link spins classic fairy tales into utterly original stories of seekers--characters on the hunt for love, connection, revenge, or their own sense of purpose. In "The White Cat's Divorce," an aging billionaire sends his three sons on a series of absurd goose chases to decide which will become his heir. In "The Girl Who Did Not Know Fear,"...

"Twelve young Asians Americans cross paths, meeting challenges and victories, in a busy airport"--

In this first time collaboration between authors Ran Walker and Sabin Prentis, they explore the lives of four people who occupy a brownstone in a heavily gentrified neighborhood in the city of New Hollis. With stories ranging from the owner who wrestles with the pressure to sell her building to the former DJ who is finding a new life after parole, the four stories in Four Floors examine the intersection of gentrification, hip-hop, love, life, and...

SLEEPING DRAGONS is the first volume of short fiction by the acclaimed Bolivian author Magela Baudoin to be published in English. In this collection-the winner of 2015 Gabriel GarcIa Marquez Spanish-American Short Story Prize-her deceptively innocent portrayals of day to day lives belie the unsettling feeling of things unseen and unsaid and on the verge of falling apart. The young woman in the title story embarks on an eco-adventure to escape a recent...

"The fifteen pieces in...The Beast You Are are all monsters of a kind, ready to loudly (and lovingly) smash through your head and into your heart. In 'The Dead Thing,' a middle-schooler struggles to deal with the aftermath of her parents’ substance addictions and split. One day, her little brother claims he found a shoebox with 'the dead thing' inside. He won’t show it to her and he won’t let the box out of his sight. In 'The Last Conversation,'...

Stories from a Japanese master of transformative fiction, where reality, myth, and human foibles meet shifting dimensions of gender, biology, and destiny. From the bestselling author of Strange Weather in Tokyo comes this otherworldly collection of eight stories, each a masterpiece of transformation, infused with humor, sex, and the universal search for love and beauty-in a world where the laws of time and space, and even species boundaries, don't...