Books containing stories by Lori Ostlund
The Best American Short Stories 2024 (2024)
(Best American Short Stories)
edited by
Lauren Groff and Heidi Pitlor
Down on the Sidewalk (2020)
Stories About Children and Childhood from the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
edited by
Ethan Laughman
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Lori Ostlund recommends
Mia (2026)
Leslie Bazzett
"Titled, aptly, after a character who does not exist, Leslie Bazzett's Mia is about the search for a mother, the search for a daughter, the search for a missing-in-action self. Bazzett explores obsession and privilege in this fraught story built around an unsettled past and an unsettling present, in which the constant is the elegance and depth of Bazzett's hypnotic prose. Mia is a beautifully observed psychological thriller that burns slowly then explodes."
Off the Books (2024)
Soma Mei Sheng Frazier
"In Soma Mei Sheng Frazier's Off the Books, student-turned-limo-driver Mei and her mysterious passenger travel from San Francisco to Syracuse and back, but also around the world and into the dark corners of humanity, as well as into Mei's past and her struggle to make sense of her own identity and the recent death of her father. Along the way, we meet one of my favorite characters in a good long while, Mei's iconoclastic, pot-smoking, funny, and wise grandfather. Soma Mei Sheng Frazier is a masterful storyteller who draws on humor and compassion to show us the world we live in, then asks us not to look away. I could have kept driving cross country with these characters forever."
Endpapers (2023)
Jennifer Savran Kelly
"Jennifer Savran Kelly's Endpapers immerses us in the world and mind of her engaging but struggling narrator Dawn - genderqueer, Jewish, a book conservator on a desperate search for queer role models and an artistic community. Endpapers is about the need to be fully seen - to locate oneself in the past in order to feel visible in the present. Savran Kelly is a masterful and compassionate storyteller, one who finds hope in the antidotes to hate and violence: community, art, authentic self. This is a book for all of us!"
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