Collection of short stories in which the author examines the near-mythological accounts of the Alaskan wilderness that are her inheritance and probes the question of what it means to live up to larger-than-life expectations for toughness and survival.
In her debut collection, Melinda Moustakis brings to life a rough-and-tumble family of Alaskan homesteaders through a series of linked stories. Born in Alaska herself to a family with a homesteading legacy, Moustakis examines the near-mythological accounts of the Alaskan wildern…
The PEN/O. Henry prize stories 2013
by Eisenberg, Deborah, Silber, Joan, Beattie, Ann, Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer, Furman, Laura, Palacio, Derek, Link, Kelly, Rosenwaike, Polly, Aw, Tash, Binder, L. Annette, Antrim, Donald, Serizawa, Asako, Moustakis, Melinda, McCormick, George, Jones, Nalini, Tuck, Lily, Quatro, Jamie, Bucak, Ayşe Papatya, Barrett, Andrea, Munro, Alice, Fitzgerld, Samar Farah
The O. Henry prize stories 2013
by Groff, Lauren, Shepard, Jim, Eisenberg, Deborah, Silber, Joan, Beattie, Ann, Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer, Palacio, Derek, Link, Kelly, Munro, Alice, Rosenwaike, Polly, Aw, Tash, Binder, L. Annette, Antrim, Donald, Serizawa, Asako, Fitzgerald, Samar Farah, Moustakis, Melinda, McCormick, George, Jones, Nalini, Tuck, Lily, Quatro, Jamie, Bucak, Ayşe Papatya, Barrett, Andrea, Pearlman, Edith
fromPEN/ O. Henry Prize Stories
"The O. Henry Prize Stories 2013 gathers twenty of the best short stories of the year, selected from thousands published in literary magazines. The winning stories take place in such far-flung locales as a gorgeous sailboat in Hong Kong, a Cuban sugar plantation, the Kenai River…