Granta 139: Best of Young American Novelists: Best of Young American Novelists

The third volume of Granta’s renowned and prescient, Best of Young American Novelists
Every ten years, Granta devotes an issue to new American fiction by writers under the age of forty, showcasing the young novelists deemed to be the best of their generation – writers of remarkable achievement and promise.
In 1997 and 2007 we picked out such luminaries as Edwidge Danticat, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jonathan Safran Foer, Jonathan Franzen, Nicole Krauss, Lorrie Moore, Yiyun Li, Karen Russell and Gary...