Devil's Creek, Todd Keisling

Devil's Creek was the site of a religious cult back in the early '80s. There was a church located there, home to the Lord's Church of Holy Voices and the head of the cult, Jacob Masters preached the gospel of a nameless god. In 1983, Imogene and her other friends…

The Southland, Johnny Shaw

Three unauthorised Mexican immigrants come to Los Angeles to earn for a living. Luz works multiple jobs to provide for herself and her teenage son Eliseo. Ostelinda works as a labourer in a garment factory. She was deceived by coyotes and confined in the same building since her arrival, telling…

The Sweet Hereafter, Russell Banks

Four different narrators are recalling their memories on the day of the school bus accident which occurred in a small town of Sam Dent. Dolores Driscoll is the most experienced school bus driver in that town. She is the first narrator who gives her account of the story, beginning with…

Pizza Girl, Jean Kyoung Frazier

This story begins with the name of the narrator's customer Jenny Hauser who orders pepperoni and pickles pizza every Wednesday. The narrator is just eighteen years old and eleven weeks pregnant at that time working as a pizza delivery girl at Eddie's. The story is gradually revealing bits and pieces…

Ordinary Grace, William Kent Krueger

Frank recalls the memories of the summer in 1961 when he was a thirteen-year-old boy in a small town of New Bremen, Minnesota. The story is narrated by Frank forty years after, looking back at that particular summer which visited by frequent deaths in various forms. Accident. Nature. Suicide. Murder.…

The Black-Marketer's Daughter, Suman Mallick

A Pakistani Muslim Zuleikha is married to Iskander via arranged marriage and struggles to adjust to her new life in Texas. She soon realises the life in America is not what she learned from confiscated contraband movies and books in Pakistan. Besides trying to adapt in such an estrange environment,…