Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story A "brilliant [and] entrancing" (The

A "brilliant [and] entrancing" (The Guardian) journey into the hidden lives of fungi--the great connectors of the living world--and their astonishing and intimate roles in human life

Both hopeful and elegiac

" --Lisa Wingate

With implications for the way we raise our children

Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story A "brilliant [and] entrancing" (TheA selection of the best and most representative contemporary American short fiction from 1970 to 2020, including such authors as Ursula K. LeGuin, Toni Cade Bambara, Jhumpa Lahiri, Sandra Cisneros, and Ted Chiang, hand selected by celebrated editor and anthologist John Freeman In the past fifty years, the American short story has changed dramatically. New voices, forms, and mixtures of styles have brought this unique genre a thrilling burst of energy.