“Twenty-four sad, funny, touching, intriguing, and sometimes-unsettling stories by some of Minnesota’s best writers.” —St. Paul Pioneer Press
Writers from Sinclair Lewis and F. Scott Fitzgerald to Louise Erdrich and Garrison Keillor have called Minnesota home, contributing to the state’s rich literary history as well as its reputation as a place that cherishes education and American democracy. It also embraces diversity, as showcased in this collection of local fiction-writing talent that reflects the vibrancy and variety of the North Star State in the twenty-first century.
This anthology presents a literary mosaic of modern Minnesota with writings by and about an extraordinarily wide range of voices and characters—including powerful work by Sarah Stonich, Sun Yung Shin, Pallavi Sharma Dixit, Shannon Gibney, Ethan Rutherford, Éireann Lorsung, Miriam Karmel, and others.
Prior to moving to Minneapolis in 2005, Daniel Slager had considerable experience selecting and editing fiction at Harcourt Trade Publishers and at Grand Street, a leading quarterly magazine of literature and fine arts in New York. A relative newcomer to–but nonetheless fascinated resident of–Minnesota, he is the Publisher of Milkweed Editions.