Immigrant Short Stories

From the award-winning author of Chemistry comes a sharp and poignant short story that follows a young medical student working in clinical research and grappling with the realities of a future in her chosen field.

Featured in the Netflix series Love, Death & Robots Bestselling author Ken Liu selects his multiple award-winning stories for a groundbreaking collection—including a brand-new piece exclusive to this volume. With his debut novel, The Grace of Kings, taking the literary world by storm, Ken Liu...

“Memorable, unflinching, and deeply human.” — Finalist, Grace Notes Publishing Fiction Contest What does it cost to find a home? In this award-winning collection of fourteen stories, the borders are more than just lines on a map—they are the boundaries of the human soul. From the dusty streets of Sinaloa to the bustling day-labor corners of the U.S., these stories pull back the curtain on a world defined by the search for dignity, purpose, and survival. Meet the unforgettable characters caught in the crossfire: Jesus, a rookie day laborer who must decide if his "American Dream" is ...

It’s a New Jersey summer in 1967, and thirteen-year-old Ravi Ramanathan has the makings of a tennis prodigy. His surgeon father encourages his ambition, while his mother dreams of their only child following his father’s path. Surrounded by his parents’ love, Ravi chafes a bit at their daily routines and little traditions. Then one unexpected day, everything changes. Realizing how much he took for granted, Ravi must grow up overnight and find a new role in the life of his family.

FALL RIVER HORRORS: 13 Tales from the Mill City Thirteen tales of blue-collar horror from the haunted heart of New England. Welcome to Fall River, Massachusetts. The mills are dead. The river runs underground. And the Spindle City keeps its ghosts the way it keeps everything else — close, and unforgiven. In this collection of New England horror stories, debut author Ricardo D. Rebelo drags you down the cracked sidewalks of a fading mill town where the monsters are real and the past never stays buried. These are not haunted mansions and quiet country roads. This is working-class horror ...

This revelatory story collection honors characters struggling to find their bearings far from home, even as they do the necessary "grunt work of the world." A failed boxer painting nails at the local salon. A woman plucking feathers at a chicken processing plant. A housewife learning English...

All is well with longshoreman Uncle Eddie, kindhearted Aunt Beatrice and live-in niece Catherine until the secret guests from Italy arrive and Uncle Eddie turns from generous and welcoming to jealous, difficult and self-serving resulting in disastrous encounters and dark consequences, as a Greek modern tragedy. The story is set in working-class 1950s Brooklyn, in the Red Hook neighborhood with “a view from the bridge.” The book is the prose version of Arthur Miller’s 1955 play and it is perfect for a pleasant and intensive reading. It comes with an introduction, with notes and ...

Ken Liu, author of the Nebula and Hugo Award–winning The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories and The Hidden Girl and Other Stories—his second short story collection and the basis of the groundbreaking anime Pantheon—returns with a bold new anthology. Thought-provoking, heartbreaking, and...

A perilous voyage by sea, the difficulties of life in a new country, new friends, and one terrible event, challenge Mette Jensen as she leaves her home in Haderslev, Schleswig determined to start a new life beyond the reach of Prussian Soldiers. With Denmark still reeling from the effects of war over the ownership of Schleswig, two Danish sisters make the difficult decision to leave their homeland. The men of Schleswig, on the border between Denmark and Germany, have already left in droves to avoid being drafted into the Prussian army, and a recruiter from New Zealand has been traveling ...

“In these kaleidoscopic stories of Jamaica and its diaspora we hear many voices at once. All of them convince and sing. All of them shine.”—Zadie Smith An O: The Oprah Magazine “Top 15 Best of the Year” A Well-Read Black Girl’s Pick Tenderness and cruelty, loyalty and betrayal...

Revenge isn't always sweet. Can her captive heart be freed to dream, to dare, to love? A quest for revenge ends in a marriage of convenience and a feisty Irish lass discovers that not everything is as it seems as family secrets are revealed. An Irish cop, bent on saving the fallen women of Five Points, New York, finds himself thrust into the role of husband with a woman determined to break down a notorious crime boss. Can these two pull together and find a love bigger than they are?

Following the success of Paris Noir, the Akashic Noir Series has expanded to include the famously diverse and sometimes controversial suburbs of this legendary city.

Lulu has been waiting at the Animal Rescue Center for fourteen months. She was a Bichon Frise with dark, patient eyes and the kind of loyalty that doesn't ask for much in return. She'd had a good life with Ziggy, an elderly man who came to America with two suitcases and a heart still aching from a war that scattered everything he'd ever built. They found each other the way good things sometimes happen: unexpectedly, perfectly. But hearts don't stay on schedule, and when Ziggy's stopped, Lulu was left waiting again. Then a young family walks into the shelter on a February Saturday. Their ...

In these deeply felt, slyly humorous stories, Bezmozgis pleads no special causes but presents immigrant characters with all their contradictions and complexities, their earnest and divided hearts.

From EDGAR-AWARD WINNING author Erika Krouse, a VISCERAL, DAZZLING collection of stories set across the globe about characters desperate for salvation “Comparative audiobook newbies Baker and Ewer already know how to aurally enhance Krouse’s marvelously provocative fiction debut...

Every morning, on every continent, millions of people make the same unpaid journey: the one to work. In Tokyo, a salaryman rides a silent train and finds a paper crane with no name attached. In Lagos, a young woman sells data cards through car windows in gridlock, still half-believing a stranger's promise that her story isn't over. In Mumbai, a dabbawala carries a city's love in stacked steel tins, precise enough that Harvard once studied it. In Cairo, a civil servant watches a call to prayer stop the traffic noise for ninety seconds — and decides, in that quiet, to do the one right thing...

"If I Survive You is a collection of connected short stories that reads like a novel, that reads like real life, that reads like fiction written at the highest level. There are no limits to where Jonathan Escoffery will go." —Ann Patchett, author of The Dutch House "Torian Brackett's skillful...

With winter closing in, a desperate Russian fugitive turns to her ex-lover for help, only to find herself involved in a deeper nightmare. Her cover is blown, a corrupt Task Force Chief is hunting her for profit, and for the first time, there's no one left to lean on. To survive, she'll have to make a decision that will change her life forever—for better, or for worse.

On Ash Wednesday in 1908, Swiss German immigrant Fritz Hirter arrives at his children’s school, where he is the lone custodian. But soon after lessons start, a fast-moving fire breaks out—its cause is unknown, but its effects are horrifying. Although Fritz is soon cleared of any responsibility for the catastrophe, the community continues to suspect him, supremely testing Fritz and his family.

"Her immediate concern was money." So begins the first story in Manuel Muñoz's dazzling new collection. In it, Delfina has moved from Texas to California's Central Valley with her husband and small son, and her isolation and desperation force her to take a risk that ends in profound betrayal.