Gorilla, My Love
by Toni Cade Bambara | 
The Toughest Indian in the World
by Sherman Alexie | 
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
by Stephen King | 
Birds of America
by Lorrie Moore | 
Strange Pilgrims
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
Exercises in Style
by Raymond Queneau | 
Goodbye, Columbus
by Philip Roth |
In Search of Satisfaction
by J. California Cooper | 
A Manual for Cleaning Women
by Lucia Berlin |
Anything Is Possible
by Elizabeth Strout | 
A Piece of Mine
by J. California Cooper |
The Matter Is Life
by J. California Cooper | 
The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel
by Amy Hempel |
Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime
by J. California Cooper | 
Some Soul To Keep
by J. California Cooper | 
I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down
by William Gay | 
Thirteen Ways of Looking
by Colum McCann | 
Something Rich and Strange
by Ron Rash | 
How to Breathe Underwater
by Julie Orringer | 
The Best of Ruskin Bond
by Ruskin Bond |
Ten stories of Black life written with Ms. Bambara's characteristic vigor, sensibility and winning irony. The stories range from the timid and bumbling confusion of a novice community worker in "The Apprentice" to the love-versus-politics crisis of an organizers wife, to the dark and bright notes of the title story about the passengers on a refugee ship from a war-torn Asian nation.